DAO Object

Version

 
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.
 
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