Major differences between MS Access and Sql Server

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Hello all, can anybody give the differences between MS Access and Sql server. Thanks in advance.

Posted 16-Dec-12 17:59pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 17-Dec-12 0:48am

Totally invalid question. How would you define "major" and "differences"?.. basically, SQL server is a server, but MS Access is not; it does not use even the client-server model. MS Access is not anything serious at all, I would warn against using it...
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Wendelius · Answer 1 · 2012-12-16T18:32:00

One huge difference is that Sql Server is a database management system whereas Access is not. Why I'm saying this is that in Access all the responsibility of the actual database operations is scattered on clients using the Access files. In Sql Server there's a database engine which takes the responsibility of actual operations such as file handling, optimization, memory management and so on.

So basically the concept for access is using just a shared file and the client side drivers are doing the management. In Access the operations are done via file manipulation from the client side whereas in Sql Server the client communicates with the database engine using SQL.

Krunal Rohit · Answer 2 · 2012-12-16T18:17:00

http://www.quackit.com/microsoft_access/tutorial/microsoft_access_versus_sql_server.cfm[^]
http://forums.aspfree.com/microsoft-access-help-18/difference-between-ms-access-sql-server-99300.html[^]
http://www.ehow.com/about_5380306_microsoft-access-vs-sql-server.html[^]
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-AU/vbgeneral/thread/7139293d-8bca-492e-b6de-197d55ae751e[^]

Major differences between MS Access and Sql Server

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