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  Microsoft Access
       
          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)