Access Professional 2016 EN Global

MS Access is a database management system (DBMS) from MS that combines the relational MS Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools. It is a member of the MS Office suite of applications, included in the Professional and higher editions or sold separately.

MS Access stores data in its own format based on the Access Jet Database Engine. It can also import or link directly to data stored in other applications and databases.

Software developers, data architects and power users can use MS Access to develop application software. Like other MS Office applications, Access is supported by Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), an object-based programming language that can reference a variety of objects including DAO (Data Access Objects), ActiveX Data Objects, and many other ActiveX components. Visual objects used in forms and reports expose their methods and properties in the VBA programming environment, and VBA code modules may declare and call Windows operating system operations.