PHPMyAdmin and HeidiSQL are administrative tools for managing your database. MS Access was an application development environment and database combined. Access

PHPMyAdmin and HeidiSQL are administrative tools for managing your database. MS Access was an application development environment and database combined. Access was full of GUI's and "wizards" (the interfaces where you answer some questions, click next, answer some more questions, repeat until finished). The result was a tool that power users (users who are very good with a computer, but not a full fledged programmer) could use to build some pretty amazing stuff. It has been mentioned elsewhere in this thread, but one of the amazing things about Access was the way it could figure out what you wanted to do through a wizard. Provided your tables and relationships were set up correctly, you could do some powerful stuff. For example, if you have two tables with a 1:many relationship, you can display a form with a sub-form where the data is linked. Navigating between records in the parent form would automatically load data in the sub-form. It's a product that you really should use a little if you're really interested in a project. Despite its warts, Access was a really incredible and ambitious product.