Migrating from Microsoft Access to the MySQL database
Microsoft Access is a popular data management application that allows you to store information in tables that it manages directly from the local disk. You can also use Access as a front end, that is, as an interface to information that is located elsewhere and handled by another storage management system. In this case, Access acts as a client that connects to a server that provides the data. The MySQL database system is one such storage manager; if you install the MyODBC driver, Access can make ODBC connections to MySQL database servers over the network. You can still use the contents of your tables through Access, but the tables themselves are hosted by the MySQL server.
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