Overview
What is Microsoft Access?
Microsoft Access is a database management system from Microsoft that combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools.
A great Database management solution which covers all aspects of data storage and management.
A superb database management system
[Microsoft] Access - not for the faint of heart - but certainly for the amateur data miner
Microsoft Access a great MS SQL alternative
Best in Business, Microsoft Access!
A powerful database that lets you organize your data as you like
Very powerful, but not easy to configure
Simple and Easy database management solution
Access makes my job easier!
Simple and graphical database management tool for small and medium corporate projects
Access is a great investment for your company
Microsoft Access Review
Microsoft Access Makes it Possible!
Microsoft Access is still relevant!
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Pricing
Microsoft Access
$139.99
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Product Demos
Workflow Builder for Microsoft Access Demo
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Open Source Simple LIMS Software for Small Lab Demo
Microsoft Access Electronic Signature Capture Database Template
Microsoft Access Database Tutorial - User form Login Security Demo
Microsoft Access Project Management Database Template
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Deployment Types | On-premise |
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Operating Systems | Windows |
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(1-25 of 98)Nice when is included
- Easy to Use
- Lightweight
- Included with our office 365 licenses
- Speed
- Table size
- Full text search
A great Database management solution which covers all aspects of data storage and management.
- Dattabase Management
- Reporting
- Analysis
- Data Search
- Intuitive analytics
- Reporting structure
A superb database management system
- Database system can be easily done.
- Graphical interface makes it awesome.
- Collaboration of documents.
- For huge amount of documents it is beaconing slower.
- Security level is low.
- It is available for windows user.
[Microsoft] Access - not for the faint of heart - but certainly for the amateur data miner
- Reporting
- Data gathering
- Data manipulation
- Easy to implement and train
- Formula creation
- Form creation
- Complex reporting
Microsoft Access a great MS SQL alternative
- Works on pretty much same SQL scripts
- Forms and reports are easy to customize and edit.
- High learning curve
- Limited support
- No new enhancements
[Microsoft] Access allows you to create places to store data in an easily retrievable fashion, allowing multiple users and form views for display and data entry, reporting, and data analysis. Easily mitigable to SQL Server, as you continue to grow. I've turned many an [Microsoft] Access database into a front-end for SQL Server. The Application looks and behaves like the other Office products, making it's introduction to new users fairly simple and straight forward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Best in Business, Microsoft Access!
- Very easy to create entity-relationship diagrams for various tables and designing mock layouts.
- Really easy to navigate as it hold[s] the classic Microsoft UI. Another good thing is that it comes with the complete MS Office Suite.
- It is really fast when joining multiple tables no matter what type of join.
- Works on pretty much same SQL scripts so no need to learn a new language!
- Need to backup very frequently, I have lost my work many times.
- No version for Mac users, [I believe this is a] big limitation.
- The ability to handle large database and multiple users.
- UI is easy to use but [I feel it] can be improved a lot.
- Generates information about department events, services, orders, etc. quickly and in report form.
- Easy to design forms and reports with drag and drop components. You don't need to know coding.
- The ability to link tables and queries to get all the info needed for forms and reports
- Forms and reports are easy to customize and edit.
- Easily report your data grouped and sorted by any field
- Microsoft Access has not really changed at all for several years. It might be nice to see some upgrades and changes.
- The help info is often not helpful. Need more tutorials for Microsoft Access to show how to do specific things.
- Be careful naming objects such as tables, forms, etc. Names that are too long can get cut off in dialog boxes to choose a table, form, report, etc. So, I wish they would have resizable dialog boxes to allow you to see objects with long names.
- I wish it could show me objects that are not in use in the database for current queries, tables, reports, forms, and macros. That way unused objects can be deleted without worrying about losing a report or query because you deleted the underlying object.
Very powerful, but not easy to configure
- Fully customizable
- Forms enable customized easy entry
- Reports can solve pretty much any need
- Mailmerge and emails can automate any task.
- Very high learning curve
- Hard to code complex reports without a ton of time and skill
- No support resources for reporting help.
Simple and Easy database management solution
- Thorough management of data and files.
- Data queries are conducted in snap of a time.
- Easy and simple database solution with multiple outputs.
- User friendly customization options.
- Cannot be use on various non Microsoft platforms.
Access makes my job easier!
- Find matching data points from 2 different data sets
- Find unmatched data points from 2 data sets
- Amalgamate data ,any different data sets
- A little clunky
- Not very intuitive
- Have to take time to format data in order to import/work within Microsoft Access
- Default ready templates that you can use depending on the theme of your project
- You do not need programming knowledge or DB science to work with it
- Simple and attractive graphical interface that you can add everything you have in mind to your application features with a few clicks
- Ability to easily connect and store data with Azure SQL and MySQL databases, will increasing security and work efficiency.
- Although we know that Microsoft Access was created for small and simple projects, if Microsoft expands its capabilities, it [would be] very good. For example, the size limit of the database is currently 2GB or 200K records is very small.
- Microsoft Access is not designed for multiple users at the same time and has limitations that must be considered.
- Designed for Windows OS only and this is a serious limitation, many users use Macs and Apple products.
Access is a great investment for your company
- Easy to use, and nearly limitless potential
- Fast when joining data sets, whether you are doing inner, outer, full or self joins
- Widely used software. Just about every company uses Access, or at least has it installed
- When joining data, if there could be a way to add columns for matches, instead of adding rows
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- Easy integration
- User-friendly
- Very easy to use
- Sometimes files get corrupted
- Backups are often required
- Slows down the system
Microsoft Access Makes it Possible!
- Stores Data
- Groups Data for Easy Reference
- User-Friendly
- Marketing
- Customer Outreach
- IT
Microsoft Access is still relevant!
- Quickly build forms and reports
- Easy user interface with familiar tools
- Least amount of programming
- Multi-user support
- Useful features are often removed from newer versions
Microsoft Access for Newbies
- Matching/combining data from two or more sources. (I.e. data from a central student information system and information received from a department-made submission form
- Finding errors between two datasets
- Saving time when used properly instead of Microsoft Excel
- Generally high learning curve for new users. Especially if they are not comfortable with technology.
- Desktop only program; not available in web-format like other O365 products
- Fewer experienced users, means it's a lot of self-teaching and troubleshooting when you run into an issue
However, I rated this an 8 overall because of the Learning curve and limited number of expienced users able to help with questions.
Definitely take the risk to try and learn it though. You won't regret it!
A good tool for rapid development and prototyping, better for data management than Excel
- Rapid-application Development
- Data Entry / Data Management
- Local Data Management
- Old SQL Engine (It would be great to use T-SQL Syntax!)
- Old Forms Builder (update WYSIWYG forms builder)
- No Cloud-based option
- Microsoft Access is great for local low code, relational database applications where users are creating, reading, updating, and deleting data (CRUD)..
- Access provides SQL implementation and relational database functionality in a easy-to-use environment which makes it superb to excel for data management activities.
- Useful mostly for locally stored database and not network or cloud-based applications
- Easy-to-user interface makes it hard to compete against
- The underlying SQL and relational database architecture handles larger sets of data much better than Microsoft Excel.
Microsoft Access is good for databases management
- [Microsoft] Access can be linked directly with other Microsoft applications to get all sort of data formats.
- Easy configuration and interface
- Can easily import and compile data from different resources.
- Not ideally perfect for large databases.
MS Access: It Has a Place in the Mix
- All-in-one solutions (dashboard, data entry, reports/queries, relational data).
- As much/little business logic and automation as required.
- Can easily be tailored to specific needs of departments/individuals.
- Can interact directly with corporate databases (e.g. SQL).
- The need for each user to have their own instance of the front end is an obstacle to more widespread use.
- Graphs/charts still seem more difficult to implement than they should be.
- Combining files
- Search large datasets quickly
- Roll out to single or multiple locations with limited ease and implementation cost
- Scalability between different versions
- 2GB Size limit before SQL migration needed
- Lack of availability to access via the web without SharePoint
- Corruption of files can happen, leading to VB being erased. Frequent backups are needed
Teaching with Access
- Graphical interface makes design easier.
- Good introduction for database design concepts.
- GUI allows less room for errors.
- Concurrent users accessing a database makes it really slow.
- Requires Windows, and Office.
Microsoft Access Views
- Easy to work with.
- Easy to learn.
- Easy to convert to SQL if the need arises.
- Would be nice to be able to work with larger databases.
- Certain features have changed over the years - sometimes hard to follow.
Access is wonderfully affordable and customizable, just be prepared to do some training.
- It is inexpensive compared to other database options.
- It is versatile. You can create databases in almost any category, area, market sector, and industry.
- It lets you customize it, and you are able to create custom input forms and reports.
- Well, it requires a lot more training or research than other more "intuitive" Microsoft products.
- The buildout of custom reports is highly complex, and I think that area, in particular, could be more intuitive.
- Queries can be difficult to develop if you don't know the right language or terminology, and I think that those terms could be better visible in the ribbon.
Microsoft Access Positive Aspects
The grouping of data in an organized way adapts to the company designed a set of real strategies aimed at improving the profitability of the company. To date, the results have been positive because since they agreed it was implemented, the company's profit has improved. Microsoft Access adapts well in departments where databases do not have much content, or where we do not have to have completed programs or require working with many variables. It is a program that has all the work tools required by the organization to function properly and fulfill the planned tasks.
- Ability to manage all information
- Tables to store data
- Consult to search and retrieve only the data you need
- Forms to view, add and update or analyze the internet data
- Volume of data or users
- Among its biggest drawbacks are that it is not multiplatform
- Imports data from almost every common data format. Custom import specification allows more flexibility.
- Excellent forms and report writer together query designer. Complete collection of tools in one place.
- VBA allows complex manipulation of data and automating it to cut down repetitive work.
- Data in MS Access can be linked directly with MS Excel, combing the powers of data management in MS Access and data visualisation in MS Excel.
- Overall capacity, such as file size (currently 2GB max) and the number of fields allowed (currently 255) needs to be increased.
- Needs significant enhancement to address file bloating issues.
- It's an excellent RAD tool. Haven't been overhauled in the last 10 years or so. It's about time that Microsoft commit more resources to this brilliant product
MS Access is excellent for setting up a small scale database or to simply import data and run VBA script to automate data manipulation tasks. It's also an excellent tool to link with enterprise-level data warehouses usually kept in Oracle or MS SQL Server. In such cases MS Access simple acts as a frontend tool that can query data. You can create professional reports for publishing data.
MS Access tends to fall short while handling bigger datasets that have more than a few million records. The processing time, especially when run from a network drive can be very slow compared to running on your local machine. The file size in such cases is also a limitation. Although that limitation can be overcome using multiple backend data files it does require a bit of routine maintenance.