{"id":3731,"date":"2014-11-18T14:49:35","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T14:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.withdata.com\/blog\/?p=3731"},"modified":"2026-09-16T17:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T17:21:15","slug":"download-microsoft-access-database-engine-64-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withdata.com\/blog\/tips\/download-microsoft-access-database-engine-64-bit.html","title":{"rendered":"Download Microsoft Access Database Engine (64-bit)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Short answer:<\/strong> the 64-bit build of the Microsoft Access Database Engine 2016 Redistributable is the file <code>AccessDatabaseEngine_X64.exe<\/code>. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/details.aspx?id=54920\">download it from Microsoft<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Before you install it, read the second half of this page: if you landed here because of <em>&#8220;Provider cannot be found. It may not be properly installed&#8221;<\/em> or <em>&#8220;Data source name not found and no default driver specified&#8221;<\/em>, installing the driver is only one of two ways out. The other is to use a tool that opens .mdb and .accdb files directly, with no driver involved at all.<\/p>\n<h2>Which build do you actually need?<\/h2>\n<p>The Access Database Engine ships in two builds and they are <strong>not<\/strong> interchangeable. Your application, your Office installation and the engine all have to agree.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<th><\/th>\n<th>64-bit &mdash; this page<\/th>\n<th>32-bit<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>File name<\/td>\n<td><code>AccessDatabaseEngine_X64.exe<\/code><\/td>\n<td><code>AccessDatabaseEngine.exe<\/code><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Install it when<\/td>\n<td>the program that reads the database is 64-bit<\/td>\n<td>that program is 32-bit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Symptom if you pick wrong<\/td>\n<td>&#8220;Provider cannot be found&#8221; still appears after installing<\/td>\n<td>the provider never shows up in the list<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Windows will not install both builds side by side the normal way. Getting both in place requires running the 32-bit installer with the <code>\/quiet<\/code> switch, which is an unsupported configuration that can break Office. So it is worth confirming which build you need before installing anything.<\/p>\n<h2>How to tell whether your program is 64-bit<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Microsoft Office:<\/strong> File &rarr; Account &rarr; About Word (or About Excel). The first line of that dialog says 32-bit or 64-bit.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Any Windows program:<\/strong> open Task Manager, switch to the <em>Details<\/em> tab and look at the process name. 32-bit processes carry a &#8220;(32 bit)&#8221; label.<\/li>\n<li><strong>From the install path:<\/strong> a program under <code>C:\\Program Files (x86)<\/code> is 32-bit; one under <code>C:\\Program Files<\/code> is 64-bit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Skip the driver: open Access files directly<\/h2>\n<p>Withdata&#8217;s Access tools read .mdb and .accdb files themselves. No Access Database Engine, no OLEDB or ODBC provider, and no Microsoft Access installation &mdash; and they run on Windows, Linux and macOS.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/tools\/db\/export-from-access\">Export Access tables to CSV, Excel, JSON, TXT or SQL<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/tools\/db\/import-to-access\">Import CSV, Excel or text files into Access<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/tools\/db-to-db\/copy-between-access\">Copy data between two Access databases<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/tools\/db\/migrate-for-access\">Migrate Access to MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and others<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The same is true of our <a href=\"\/tools\/file\/excel\/list\">Excel tools<\/a>, which work without Microsoft Excel installed and without this driver.<\/p>\n<h2>If you still need Microsoft&#8217;s driver<\/h2>\n<p>Access Database Engine 2016 Redistributable installs the ACE provider that older applications use to read .mdb, .accdb, .xls, .xlsx and .xlsb files. Microsoft publishes it on its own download page: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/details.aspx?id=54920\">Microsoft Access Database Engine 2016 Redistributable<\/a>. Pick the <strong>64-bit<\/strong> download &mdash; <code>AccessDatabaseEngine_X64.exe<\/code>, not the 32-bit one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong> <a href=\"\/blog\/tips\/download-microsoft-access-database-engine-32-bit.html\">the 32-bit version of this driver<\/a> &middot; <a href=\"\/blog\/tips\/missing-msvcr110-dll.html\">Missing msvcr110.dll<\/a> &middot; <a href=\"\/blog\/tips\/about-unable-to-load-odbcji32-dll.html\">Unable to load odbcji32.dll<\/a> &middot; <a href=\"\/tools\/db\/\">all database tools<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short answer: the 64-bit build of the Microsoft Access Database Engine 2016 Redistributable is the file AccessDatabaseEngine_X64.exe. You can download it from Microsoft. Before you install it, read the second half of this page: if you landed here because of &#8220;Provider cannot be found. 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