Microsoft Data Access Objects (DAO) API

Data Access Objects (DAO) provide a programmatic interface to create, query, and modify the structure and data of Access databases, with objects like Database, Recordset, TableDef, QueryDef, and more mapping directly to database constructs.

API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑
name: Microsoft Data Access Objects (DAO) API
description: Data Access Objects (DAO) provide a programmatic interface to create, query, and modify the
  structure and data of Access databases, with objects like Database, Recordset, TableDef, QueryDef, and
  more mapping directly to database constructs.
image: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access
humanUrl: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/client-developer/access/desktop-database-reference/microsoft-data-access-objects-reference
tags:
- DAO
- Data Access
- QueryDef
- Recordset
- TableDef
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/client-developer/access/desktop-database-reference/microsoft-data-access-objects-reference
- type: Database Object Reference
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/client-developer/access/desktop-database-reference/database-object-dao