Database.Version property (DAO)
Applies to: Access 2013, Office 2013
In a Microsoft Access workspace, returns the vesion of the Microsoft Jet or Microsoft Access database engine that created the database. Read-only String.
Syntax
expression .Version
expression A variable that represents a Database object.
Remarks
The return value is a String that evaluates to a version number, formatted as follows.
- Microsoft Access workspace represents the version number in the form "major.minor". For example, "3.0". The product version number consists of the version number (3), a period, and the release number (0).
The following table shows which version of the database engine was included with various versions of Microsoft products.
Database Engine |
Version (year released) |
Microsoft Access |
Microsoft Visual Basic |
Microsoft Excel |
Microsoft Visual C++ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Microsoft Jet |
1.0 (1992) |
1.0 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Microsoft Jet |
1.1 (1993) |
1.1 |
3.0 |
N/A |
N/A |
Microsoft Jet |
2.0 (1994) |
2.0 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Microsoft Jet |
2.5 (1995) |
N/A |
4.0 (16-bit) |
N/A |
N/A |
Microsoft Jet |
3.0 (1995) |
‘95 (7.0) |
4.0 (32-bit) |
‘95 (7.0) |
4.x |
Microsoft Jet |
3.5 (1996) |
‘97 (8.0) |
5.0 |
‘97 (8.0) |
5.0 |
Microsoft Jet |
4.0 (2000) |
2000 (9.0) |
2000 (9.0) |
||
Microsoft Access database engine |
12.0 (2007) |
2007 |