Known as "Jet 5" by whom? I think ACE is gaining consensus in these
groups but I'm still using 'Access/Jet' (IIRC it wasn't too long ago I
was chastised for using 'ACE' to mean 'Access 2007 engine').
I just did a google for "Jet 5":
http://www.google.com/search?q="jet+5"
· Jet 5 Horticultural Trade Supplies Cornwall Devon Somerset & Dorset
· Castrol Aero Jet 5 Lubrication of gas turbines
· Jet 5 Piece Drum Set
· Busellato's JET 5 CNC Machining Center gives you the ability to work
long and wide parts in pendulum!
The only mention on MSDN is for the HP Color Laser Jet 5.
Now be truthful David: did you just make that name up said:
The situation with A2K7 is analogous to that of A2K, where a new
version of Jet was delivered with a new Access file format to go
along with the new Jet file format.
This is precisely what happened with A2K7, except, in order to more
closely associate the new version of Jet with Access, it's not
called Jet any longer.
But it *is* Jet, without question.
I think you're close to the mark but place the wrong emphasis on Jet.
Out of interest, who/what is the source of your information? We still
await an MSDN article on the subject but FWIW we do have this Access
Team Blog entry:
http://blogs.msdn.com/access/archive/2005/10/13/480870.aspx
"In past versions, Access has used the Microsoft Jet database engine
for data storage and query processing. Jet is commonly thought of as
being part of Access (or even as being "Access") but in reality it is
a Windows system component built by the SQL Server team... [the Access
team] needed to extend the Jet engine, so took a "private" copy of it,
and have extended it for Office. This means Access 12 no longer uses
the system Jet engine, but is tightly bound to its own version...
Developers can still program against the Access engine... Developers
targeting users without Access can continue to use the Jet engine"
The phrasing uses "Access engine" to mean 2007 (and beyond) and "Jet
engine" to mean previous versions.
Therefore, I conclude from the above that saying "Access engine is
Jet" is no longer correct.
Note I'm a little uncomfortable quoting this blog entry because it
also contains a misstatement:
"since [the Access engine] isn't part of the system any more,
application users will need Access on their machines."
This is incorrect because an OLE DB provider for the new Access engine
has since been made freely available from Microsoft i.e. once again we
only need ADO to be able to create, maintain and use SQL objects in
Access 2007 accdb files.
Jamie.
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