Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 Redistributable Does anyone know for sure?Īccording to your description, "Microsoft Access Database Engine 2013 Redistributable" or "Microsoft Access Database Engine 2016 Redistributable" is not available yet. >This makes me wonder if there is a separate Database Engine runtime or is everything now a single Access runtime. You can open Access 2010 Database file with Access 2013 or Access 2016. If it has not, then there is no point and I can stick with the Access 2010 database engine with the Access 2010 database format.Īccording to your description, Access 2016, Access 2013 and Access 2010 create databases in the. > Now may the file format for Access 2010 hasn't changed Access 2013 or Access 2016. This makes me wonder if there is a separate Database Engine runtime or is everything now a single Access runtime. So when I searched for "Microsoft Access Database Engine 2013 Redistributable" or "Microsoft Access Database Engine 2016 Redistributable" I found people who asked when they would be available only to have someone else reply that the Access 2013 (or 2016) runtime is available. This along with the database compact functionality is all I need. The Database Engine is more limited and supported connecting to the database using either native ACE or ODBC. In Access 2010, there was a difference between the Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 Redistributable and the Microsoft Access 2010 runtime.
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At the same time, I am taking this opportunity to upgrade the Microsoft Access Database Engine from Access 2010 to Access 2013 or 2016. I have upgraded the main application from Visual Studio 2012 to Visual Studio 2015. I have a application developed with Visual Studio 2012 that supports both Microsoft Access and Microsoft SQL Server as a place to store the application's data.