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Microsoft Access is a commercial, desktop, relational database system from Microsoft, widely used for small businesses and programmers, comes packaged with Microsoft Office Professional which combines the Jet relational database engine with a graphical interface, including forms, reports, queries and VB code.
Microsoft Access Database is a relational desktop database system from Microsoft, packaged with Microsoft Office Professional which combines the Jet relational database engine with a graphical interface. The development environment provides productivity-enhancing features. It can use data stored in Microsoft Access/Jet, SQL Server, Oracle, or any ODBC-compliant data container. Skilled users and data architects use it to develop powerful, complex applications. Relatively unskilled programmers and non-programmer "power users" can use it to build simple applications without having to deal with features they don't understand. It supports substantial object-oriented (OO) techniques but falls short of being a fully OO development tool.
Microsoft Access is widely used by small businesses and hobby programmers to create ad hoc customized systems for handling small tasks. Its ease of use and powerful design tools give the non-professional programmer a lot of power for little effort. However, this ease of use can be misleading. This sort of power user is often an office worker with little or no training in application or data design. Because Ms Access it possible even for such developers to create usable systems, many are misled into thinking that the tool itself is limited to such applications.
Some professional application creators use Microsoft Access Database for rapid application development, especially for the creation of prototypes and standalone applications that serve as tools for on-the-road salesmen. Ms Access Database does not scale well if data access is via a network, so applications that are used by more than a handful of people tend to rely on a Client-Server based solution such as Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MaxDB. However, an Microsoft Access "front end" (the forms, reports, queries and VB code) can be used against a host of database backends, including Ms Access itself, SQL Server, Oracle, and any other ODBC-compliant product. This approach allows the developer to move a matured application's data to a more powerful server without sacrificing the development already in place.
Many developers who use Microsoft Access Database use the Leszynski Naming Convention, though this is not universal; it is a programming convention, not a DBMS-enforced rule.
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HTML Help Generator for Microsoft Access makes it easy to add help to an application. Instead of making help files from scratch by hand the generator scans the application and produces the required files for you. This can save up to 80% of time required for making a help file.
FmPro Migrator quickly and accurately migrates FileMaker databases to MySQL, Oracle, Access, SQL Server, Sybase, DB2, OpenBase,PostgreSQL and FrontBase. Microsoft Access and SQL Server to FileMaker 9, FileMaker Table Consolidation conversions are included.
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DeZign for Databases is a data modeling tool that delivers dramatic increases in productivity for database developers with a complete toolset to model, maintain, generate and capture the design and requirements of databases.
Help you to easily convert between various database formats. It can directly connect to MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, InterBase ,Access, Excel, Visual Foxpro, Paradox and other formats, and convert between these formats (SQL Server to MySQL, MySQL to Access etc.). The program offers a simple step-by-step wizard, that allows you to connect to the source database, select the tables, and then convert and copy them to the destination.
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Create database web applications without coding. Supports all popular databases and hosting platforms.
DB Data Generator is a simple, powerful data generator that allows developers to easily populate databases with thousands of rows of meaningful and syntactically correct test data for database testing purposes.
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DeZign for Databases is an intuitive database design tool for developers and DBA's that can help you model, create and maintain databases. DeZign for Databases uses entity relationship diagrams (ERDs) to graphically design databases and automatically generates the most popular SQL and desktop databases.
