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D. THINK OF AT LEAST TWO DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ACCESS AND EXCEL.

In general, Access is better for managing data: helping you keep it organized, easy to search, and available to multiple simultaneous users. Excel is generally better for analyzing data: performing complex calculations, exploring possible outcomes, and producing high-quality charts. Microsoft Excel and Access are different in other aspects. Excel has more flexibility, while Access is more rigid in how we can use it. Access is more useful than Excel in one specific area. For example, Excel only provides worksheets that are flat or non-relational. On the other hand, Access offers relational tables at multiple levels.

C. WHAT TYPE OF SOFTWARE IS MICROSOFT OFFICE ACCESS?

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Microsoft Access is a database management system (DBMS) from Microsoft that combines the relational Access Database Engine (ACE) with a graphical user interface and software-development tools. It is a member of the Microsoft 365 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 Database Engine (formerly Jet Database Engine). It can also import or link directly to data stored in other applications and databases.[3] 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 the legacy DAO (Data Access Objects), ActiveX Data Objects, and many other ActiveX components. Visual objects used in forms and reports expose their methods and properties ...

B. WHAT TYPE OF SOFTWARE IS MICROSOFT OFFICE EXCEL?

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Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program included in the Microsoft Office suite of applications. With Office 365, you are able to download the application to your hard drive and will also have access to the online version.

A. WHAT IS DATABASE?

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A database is an organized collection of structured information, or data, typically stored electronically in a computer system. A database is usually controlled by a   database management system (DBMS) . Together, the data and the DBMS, along with the applications that are associated with them, are referred to as a database system, often shortened to just a database. Data within the most common types of databases in operation today is typically modeled in rows and columns in a series of tables to make processing and data querying efficient. The data can then be easily accessed, managed, modified, updated, controlled, and organized. Most databases use structured query language (SQL) for writing and querying data.