MICROSOFT JET DATABASE ENGINE

Ø The Microsoft Jet Database Engine is a database engine on which several Microsoft products have been built.

Ø The first version of Jet was developed in 1992, consisting of three modules which could be used to manipulate a database.

Ø JET stands for Joint Engine Technology, sometimes being referred to as Microsoft JET Engine or simply Jet.

Ø Microsoft Access and Visual Basic use or have used Jet as their underlying database engine.

Ø A database engine is the underlying component of a database, a collection of information stored on a computer in a systematic way.

Ø Jet is now part of Microsoft Windows and is no longer a component of Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC).