Microsoft Access 2007
Microsoft Access is a database management system (DBMS) from Microsoft that combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools. It is a member of the Microsoft Office suite of applications, included in the Professional and higher editions or sold separately.
Microsoft 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 Microsoft Access to develop application software. Like other Microsoft 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.
File extensions: Current Format
File format
|
Extension
|
|---|---|
| Access Blank Project Template | .adn |
| Access Database (2007 and later) | .accdb |
| Access Database Runtime (2007 and later) | .accdr |
| Access Database Template (2007 and later) | .accdt |
| Access Add-In (2007 and later) | .accda |
| Access Workgroup, database for user-level security. | .mdw |
| Protected Access Database, with compiled VBA andr macros (2007 and later) | .accde |
| Windows Shortcut: Access Macro | .mam |
| Windows Shortcut: Access Query | .maq |
| Windows Shortcut: Access Report | .mar |
| Windows Shortcut: Access Table | .mat |
| Windows Shortcut: Access Form | .maf |
| Access lock files (associated with .accdb) | .laccdb |
File extensions: Legacy formats
| File format | Extension |
|---|---|
| Protected Access Data Project (not supported in 2013) | .ade |
| Access Data Project (not supported in 2013) | .adp |
| Access Database (2003 and earlier) | .mdb |
| Access Database (Pocket Access for Windows CE) | .cdb |
| Access Database, used for addins (Access 2, 95, 97),previously used for workgroups (Access 2) | .mda |
| Access Blank Database Template (2003 and earlier) | .mdn |
| Access Add-in Data (2003 and earlier) | .mdt |
| Access (SQL Server) detached database (2000) | .mdf |
| Protected Access Database, with compiled VBA and macros (2003 and earlier) | .mde |
| Access lock files (associated with .mdb) | .ldb |
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