Knox County. UT Extension serves the citizens of Knox County with educational programs in the areas of Agriculture, Family and Consumer Sciences, Community Resource Development, and 4-H Youth Development.
Both Excel and Access are capable of doing a lot of things that the other can do. Both can store data. Both allow you to manipulate data. Access is primarily for lists of data, such as names and addresses, while Excel mainly deals with numbers.
An Access database is a relational database contained in a single file that you can upload to a directory on your Web server. People typically create an Access database file using Microsoft Access or FrontPage. An Access database is different than SQL Server or MySQL database because it is a flat file that you upload on your hosting server. Many Web developers use Microsoft Access databases in conjunction with FrontPage Server Extensions.