Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access both store data used to write a financial report. However, Excel has more built-in options for quickly generating a report from a small amount of financial data.

Originally, Excel was not designed to be a real database. Its early database functions were limited in quantity and in quality. And because every record in an Excel database is visible on the screen ...

Data. Your business can't run without it. As a small-business owner, you need to track everything – from your inventory levels to the personal information of employees. Many entrepreneurs start off ...

Key-value, document-oriented, column family, graph, relational… Today we seem to have as many kinds of databases as there are kinds of data. While this may make choosing a database harder, it makes ...

Recent how-to resources from Microsoft-focused publishers and database experts outline clear methods for importing Excel data into Access. They explain not only the technical steps but also the ...