Access databases are prone to get corrupted occasionally. It's important to backup your database regularly. If you don't have a backup then the first thing to try in order to recover a corrupted database is the Compact and Repair Database...

 

These days every popular commercial database product is based on the relational database model, first conceived by Ted Codd of IBM way back in 1969. It's remarkable how it has stood the test of time. But the onus is still...

 

Think of a database in the Windows environment for a small business user and almost certainly you are thinking Microsoft Access. No doubt there are still people using Lotus Approach or older products such as dBase or Foxpro, but Access...