DBMS and the Differences of Access and Excel

 

What is a Database?

A database allows you to store information related to a specific topic in an organized way. You can sort, extract, and summarize data-related information in addition to storing the data itself. Microsoft Office Access, a database program, is among the software tools that enable you to achieve this program for production and administration.

What type of Software is Microsoft Office Excel?

Excel is a spreadsheet software  program that is traditionally used to manage numerical information graphic tools, and pivot tables.

What Type of Software is Microsoft Office Access?

Access is called a relational database management program, because the tables are linked, or related. The real power of Access comes in being able to link and extract information from multiple tables to answer specific questions.

Differences between Access and Excel

The main difference between Excel and Access is that Excel is a spreadsheet to perform calculations and to represent data visually while Access is a Database Management System that is used to store and manage data easily. Moreover, Excel is non-relational, whereas Access is relational.