Standalone Database

[TaiChi56]

Can Access be used as a stand alone database? In other words, can I build a complete application and have it installed on another computer wheather that person has access installed or not?

I have seen some database programs that sure look like Access but they install and run as a program in itself. Hopefully I am making sense.

I want to develop a program for the school system but want to be able to do it as a complete application in itself, not dependent on if the user has Access or not. Thank you.

 

[jeremie_ingram]

What you are reffering to is the developers version of Access. You can sort of "compile" your database into an installation with the Access Run Time environment, which is not Access, but will allow the database to function pretty much as you would expect.

THIS WILL NOT CREATE AN APPLICATION FROM YOUR DATABASE, but it will lend to the illisioun that is has. Search the forums for developers edition.