Channel 9 Forums - Tech Off - Microsoft Access and the new Office 2013 http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 Forums - Tech Off - Microsoft Access and the new Office 2013 http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:29:38 GMT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:29:38 GMT Rev9 8 -8 -1 Tech Off - Microsoft Access and the new Office 2013 So am i reading the info right ?   Access is no longer a seperate DB using JET ?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp179914(v=office.15).aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp179914(v=office.15).aspx

says "In an on-premise environment, Access 2013 Preview apps are hosted by SharePoint 2013 Preview while the data is stored in SQL Server 2012. SharePoint 2013 Preview provides authentication, authorization, and security for Access 2013 Preview apps. The back-end tables, views, macros, and queries are stored in an SQL Server 2012 database."

while i know that access gets a bad rap due to users creating bad apps and stuff but i also know that there have been some great small apps that would never have been done if the author had to get the data on the centeral IT servers.....  so in a way i guess access is now really gone. 

RIP JET.

 and also:  so why did they not merge LightSwitch and Access into one authoring system ?? seems like they are almost going to duplicate many of the same functions and tasks and such.....

 

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/Microsoft-Access-and-the-new-Office-2013/0318e331bdfc4d23b2bea0960179e88d#0318e331bdfc4d23b2bea0960179e88d Sun, 22 Jul 2012 22:55:55 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/Microsoft-Access-and-the-new-Office-2013/0318e331bdfc4d23b2bea0960179e88d#0318e331bdfc4d23b2bea0960179e88d Craig Matthews 8 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Craig_Matthews/Discussions/RSS Tech Off - Microsoft Access and the new Office 2013 Just run my Access 2013 preview app.

The first template in the New Document screen is Custom Web App, which might be what you are talking about here, but the second template is still Blank Desktop Database, which is an .accdb file, and .mdb file is also supported, so yes I think you can still use Access to build a standalone JET database.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/Microsoft-Access-and-the-new-Office-2013/d61a05aaeea5471cb85aa09801426cd9#d61a05aaeea5471cb85aa09801426cd9 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:33:54 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/Microsoft-Access-and-the-new-Office-2013/d61a05aaeea5471cb85aa09801426cd9#d61a05aaeea5471cb85aa09801426cd9 ZippyV 8 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/ZippyV/Discussions/RSS Tech Off - Microsoft Access and the new Office 2013 why ? the ACE engine in 2007 is just a customized version of JET, AFAIK.

http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-access/archive/2005/10/13/access-12-s-new-data-engine.aspx

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/Microsoft-Access-and-the-new-Office-2013/f9e2ef31ed5b4c13a15ea099000c9d58#f9e2ef31ed5b4c13a15ea099000c9d58 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:45:55 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/Microsoft-Access-and-the-new-Office-2013/f9e2ef31ed5b4c13a15ea099000c9d58#f9e2ef31ed5b4c13a15ea099000c9d58 felix9 8 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/felix9/Discussions/RSS Tech Off - Microsoft Access and the new Office 2013 This is Andrew Stegmaier from the Access product team. I wanted to clarify some of the issues that you have raised.

Access 2013 allows you to make two kinds of databases (1) Web Databases and (2) Desktop Databases.

2013 Web Databases are published to a SharePoint 2013 site as a SharePoint App, and the data is stored on the back-end in SQL Server. These were the kinds of databases that you've been reading about in these linked articles. We're really excited about the potential of this new kind of database to make sharing, deployment, and creation easier than ever. Office 365 means that its easier than ever for people enjoy the benefits of SharePoint without expensive servers and IT staff.

However, as Felix9 pointed out, Access 2013 supports Desktop Databases as well. These are the kinds of databases that could also be created in previous versions of Access, which by default store the data in the Jet database engine. (Just as before, these desktop databases also have the ability to connect to SQL for data storage, as well). Access is still a very useful product by itself with no Office 365 or SharePoint.

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, astegmaier wrote

This is Andrew Stegmaier from the Access product team. I wanted to clarify some of the issues that you have raised.

Access 2013 allows you to make two kinds of databases (1) Web Databases and (2) Desktop Databases.

2013 Web Databases are published to a SharePoint 2013 site as a SharePoint App, and the data is stored on the back-end in SQL Server. These were the kinds of databases that you've been reading about in these linked articles. We're really excited about the potential of this new kind of database to make sharing, deployment, and creation easier than ever. Office 365 means that its easier than ever for people enjoy the benefits of SharePoint without expensive servers and IT staff.

However, as Felix9 pointed out, Access 2013 supports Desktop Databases as well. These are the kinds of databases that could also be created in previous versions of Access, which by default store the data in the Jet database engine. (Just as before, these desktop databases also have the ability to connect to SQL for data storage, as well). Access is still a very useful product by itself with no Office 365 or SharePoint.

Andrew, thank you for the information, i may have read the one part and took it to mean more than it did.

but i am also still wondering about the lightswitch Vs. Access Web question, it does seem like there is a possibly large area of "overlap" between the the two.

when i first head about lightswitch it was interesting but what i found when i dug into it was not what i wanted.  classic Access was abe to do some really cool things for small fast apps "back in the day"  I sometimes wish i could drag some of the lightswitch stuff and some of the access stuff into one .net workspace and wind up with some of the better parts of each in one package!

 

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