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.

Access uses wizards to simplify the process of creating reports or queries that select and retrieve information from your databases. Queries are instructions to the database that ask for information.

Microsoft Access faces competition on multiple fronts, including from other Microsoft platforms. There is always Microsoft Excel for simple databases and querying, which most people are already ...

Get an overview of Microsoft Office Access, along with Tutorials, Training, Features, Tips and How-To on this database management system.

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

Don't have access to Access? You can use Excel to open the database you want, using the MS Query Wizard. Here's how to multitask using Office's versatile spreadsheet program.

Microsoft Access gains BigInt support, which can be turned on or off for use with current database applications.

Microsoft on Thursday warned thousands of its cloud computing customers, including some of the world's largest companies, that intruders could have the ability to read, change or even delete their ...

Microsoft Office is more than the sum of its parts—you can link an Excel database table to an Access database, integrating your data and adding value. Here's how.

This article will teach you how to install the Microsoft Access 64-bit ODBC driver, as well as how to fix problems with ODBC when using Java to access a Microsoft Access database in the 64-bit version ...