subject: Different Between Microsoft Access And Microsoft Sql Server [print this page] Microsoft Access is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that is packaged with the Microsoft office to run under the Microsoft Windows operating system. Microsoft Access Database is a Visual Basic based application that permits SQL statements to be included in associated macros and VB scripts. Access Databases includes a Jet database engine, joint with a graphical interface, to offer easiness of use in building front-end database applications. Microsoft Access Software is a structured environment, used by beginner programmers, with little or no experience, to handle relatively small database functions. It is also a useful tool, for advanced developers, to supply rapid application development.
Access databases do not scale well for big databases or multiple-access, network environments. The underlying Jet Database is a file-sharing database that performs all processing at the client level. Microsoft Access is not designed for high volume multi-user environments that allow multiple clients to read, write and execute other operations on shared files at the same time.
Microsoft SQL Server is a server level RDBMS that incorporates the industry standard, SQL Server originated from the enterprise level, Sybase SQL Server, developed for mainframe operating systems, such as Unix and VAX VMS. The client-server interaction of SQL Server is more robust than Microsoft Access databases and is capable to handle high volume multi-user environments. SQL Server is one of Microsofts BackOffice servers, designed to handle client/server applications using the industry standard and ANSI compliant SQL. SQL Server is scalable for multiprocessing. It has the ability to reliably perform database functions and data warehousing. SQL Server can be configured to effectively and efficiently accommodate multiple users, 24 X 7, and is ideal for complex and demanding applications such as Web hosting, e-commerce, real time transactions and messaging systems.
The client-server configuration allows for the manipulation of large, multiple databases along with the capability to perform multiple and continuous data warehousing functions. Its uptime and reliability reduces the chance of database corruptions, due to failed read and write operations, as well as data access conflicts. Microsoft SQL Server is, often at times, confused with MySQL. MySQL is also a server level SQL-based RDBMS which is developed by a Swedish firm and it is distributed freely under general public license.
