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Microsoft Access

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A database management system from Microsoft which combines considerable power with an easy-to-use front end, making it possible for relatively unskilled programmers and even non-programmer "power users" to build quite sophisticated "front-ends" to complex databases.


One of the major benefits of Access from a programmer perspective is its relative compatibility with SQL - queries may be viewed and edited as SQL statements. Otherwise, it uses VBA for programming forms and logic; reports are similar to Microsoft's Crystal Reports.


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