After writing a column searching for Linux alternatives to Microsoft’s low-end database, Access, I received some great replies. Many readers pointed out the limitations of Microsoft Access, and ...

Flat databases and single-sheet workbooks are the most common type of structure in Access and Excel because most projects do not have enough data or complexity to require a relational database or ...

Microsoft Access is a database management system (DBMS) that businesses can use to store and manage large amounts of data.

How to use Application Parts in Microsoft Access You can create a Comments Table, add database objects, etc, using the Application Parts feature in Microsoft Access.

Microsoft Access allows business and other large, data-sharing entities to create databases storing vast amounts of information. Anyone using Access can share these database files with one another.

Encrypt and password-protect your database in Microsoft Access. Learn how to set a Password on an Access Database.

It depends on what kind of databases they're using. Simply ones -- i.e., ones without a variety of relationships established (a flat database), might possibly be used through interchange formats.

I consider myself an Excel poweruser. I program in it daily (20ish hours a week) and manage a few thousand lines of code for my personal use (stocks and finance). Outside of Excel, I know very ...

Microsoft's Access database management software, as offered through Office 365 service plans, now supports the dBase file format, yet again.