1. A relational database running under {Microsoft Windows}.Data is stored as a number of "{tables}", e.g. "Stock".Each table consists of a number of "records" (e.g. for different items) and each record contains a number of "fields", e.g. "Product code", "Supplier", "Quantity in stock".Access allows the user to create "forms" and "reports".A form shows one record in a user-designed format and allows the user to step through records one at a time.A report shows selected records in a user-designed format, possibly grouped into sections with different kinds of total (including sum, minimum, maximum, average).There are also facilities to use links ("joins") between tables which share a common field and to filter records according to certain criteria or search for particular field values.Version: 2 (date?).Usenet newsgroup: news:comp.databases.ms-access.2. A communications program from Microsoft, meant to compete with ProComm and other programs.It sucked and was dropped.Years later they reused the name for their database.[Date?](1997-07-20)