An Access Database (.mdb, .mde, .adp, .etc etc.) is a container for multiple
tables, forms, reports and other objects.
A serious vulnerability from a data integrity POV. One bad bit, and
the whole "database" is gone.
I would prefer to have separate "table", "form", "report" and "query"
files and have a directory of tables and other such items be referred to
as a "database". Being in all one file makes for SLOWER searches, as
well as bloat, and several failure mode vulnerabilities.
The idiot at MS that thought up that one should be fired, and they
should return to the paradigms that have been used for decades now.
This is one of my only problems with the Access "database" paradigm.
MS could learn a LOT from even a "dead" database product such as
Borland's Paradox.
Have a wonderful day in a one way world.