Microsoft® Office Access 2003 Inside Out

Exploring a Project File—LawTrack Contacts

Microsoft Access 2000 introduced an advanced facility that allows you to create a project file (with an .adp extension) that contains only your forms, reports, data access pages, macros, and modules. When you create a new project file, you can specify a Microsoft SQL Server database to support the project. SQL Server stores the tables and queries that you use in the application that you design in the project. You can connect your project file to a Microsoft SQL Server version 6.5 database on a server or to a version 7.0 or later database on a server or on your desktop. Included with Microsoft Office 2003 is a special edition of SQL Server 2000, the Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine (MSDE), that you ...