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