The Microsoft Jet Database Engine - Database Solutions for Microsoft Access:

The Microsoft Jet Database Engine - Database Solutions for Microsoft Access: Jet is the Database Management System (DBMS) which underlies MS Access and also Visual Basic, as well as MS Word and MS Excel. The Jet engine (Joint Engine Technology) was developed by Microsoft in the early 1990's as an answer to rapidly shifting needs of database systems users and applications developers. Although still relevant, reliance on the once mighty Jet engine is set to erode as limitations to the technology have become apparent and seemingly more effective alternatives have begun to present themselves. Moves are afoot to replace Jet as the pre-eminent DBMS engine, and these changes will inevitably affect MS Access users and developers throughout the industry as future versions of the product undergo fundamental changes to the back-end.

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