What does Microsoft Access actually do?

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All I know is that it’s a “database management system”, and I don’t even know what that means! I have tried fooling around with Access and have gotten nowhere. Where do I start and what is the purpose of this?

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Non techie version:

A *database* is where we organize data into lists of related information for storage. It makes the data more accurate, easier to navigate, and it takes up less space.

A *database management system*, such as Access, contains all of the tools for constructing and maintaining those lists, and for inserting and retrieving information from them.

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