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)