How to Create a Database in Access First, launch Access and choose File, New. Since you’ll be building this database from scratch, choose Blank database.

Open your file in Access. Click the Navigation Pane on the left side of the window to open a list of the database components. Click the arrow next to "All Access Objects" to open a drop-down menu.

Microsoft Access is a database management system (DBMS) that businesses can use to store and manage large amounts of data.

Microsoft Access allows business and other large, data-sharing entities to create databases storing vast amounts of information. Anyone using Access can share these database files with one another.

Compact and Repair will make the Access database smaller by eliminating unused space; it also helps to improve the performance of the database.