Hello guys. I'm a newbie. I've made a simple VB project for our office using VB6.0 and MS Access. Sadly my access got lost after the IT team installed office 365 on my computer. I am looking for an alternate for MS Access that is 'free'? can i install xamp and use mysql as local database? The program i'm trying to make is pretty much add-edit-delete-search with some reports. Just to make some tasks in the office faster.

out topic: I've been trying others (winforms and sharpdevelop) but I don't know how to connect to the database. youtube says add 'microsoft server database' but nothing shows in the list. where do i go to create one? is it free? is it kept over the internet or a local database?