On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 4:16 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > IIRC the underlying JET engine was replaced by SQL Server years ago. Maybe > not the best technlogy in the world, but you'd be hard pushed to do worse > than JET :)
The way I understood it, MS Access could connect to a variety of database backends (SQL Server, or anything that uses ODBC, or whatever else), but the only inbuilt engine - and therefore the one that you get by default if you aren't running some other server - was MS Jet. If they're incorporating SQL Server into MS Office, that would make it huge... wait, I'm not sure we could tell the difference. But still, that'd be a whopping great slab of database engine. It'd be like Python incorporating PostgreSQL. I've at times said that the Python stdlib ought to include a Postgres *client* (on par with psycopg2), but not the full *server* :) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
