RE: Access

Hi Jason

Thanks for your question and welcome to 12 months support from the forum.

The Microsoft Jet Database Engine is a database engine on which several Microsoft products were built. A database engine is the underlying component of a database, a collection of information stored on a computer in a systematic way. The first version of Jet was developed in 1992, consisting of three modules which could be used to manipulate a database.

JET stands for Joint Engine Technology, sometimes being referred to as Microsoft JET Engine or simply Jet. Microsoft Access and Visual Basic use or have used Jet as their underlying database engine. It has since been superseded, however, first by Microsoft Desktop Engine (MSDE), then later by SQL Server 2005 Express Edition and most recently by SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition, and no longer exists as a component of Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC). For larger database needs, Jet databases can be upgraded (or in Microsoft parlance, "up-sized") to Microsoft's flagship database product, SQL Server 2005.

Over the years, Jet has become almost synonymous with Microsoft Access, to the extent where many people incorrectly refer to a Jet database as an "Access database".[citation needed] Even Microsoft themselves do this sometimes, but this nomenclature should always be seen as incorrect. Jet is a database and Access is a database application development tool.

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