JET DB

With this post, I'm going to start a series to understand different tech terms. These posts are tagged with label 'Tech terms' to be search conveniently.


So let's begin with today's term which is Microsoft's JET DB:

• It stands for Microsoft Jet Database Engine

• JET stands for Joint Engine Technology

• Over the years, Jet has become almost synonymous with Microsoft Access

• The Microsoft Jet Database Engine is a database engine on which several Microsoft products were built.

• first version: 1992

• With version 2007 onwards, Access includes a new engine based on Jet, called the Microsoft Access Engine (ACE Engine). The ACE engine is fully backward-compatible with previous versions of the Jet engine, so it reads and writes (.mdb) files from earlier Access versions. The new engine introduces a new default file format, (.accdb),

• Microsoft has no plans to natively support Jet under 64-bit versions of Windows.

• The Jet Database Engine will remain 32-bit for the foreseeable future.