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Access Data Types Details

The document outlines various data types used in Microsoft Access, including Short Text, Long Text, Number, Date/Time, Currency, AutoNumber, Yes/No, OLE Object, Hyperlink, Attachment, Calculated, and Lookup Wizard. Each data type is described with its usage and size specifications. This information is essential for understanding how to effectively store and manage different types of data within Access databases.

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Access Data Types Details

The document outlines various data types used in Microsoft Access, including Short Text, Long Text, Number, Date/Time, Currency, AutoNumber, Yes/No, OLE Object, Hyperlink, Attachment, Calculated, and Lookup Wizard. Each data type is described with its usage and size specifications. This information is essential for understanding how to effectively store and manage different types of data within Access databases.

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Access Data Types – Taken from Microsoft Access Help

DATA TYPE USAGE SIZE


Short Text Alphanumeric data (names, titles, etc.) Up to 255 characters.
Long Text Large amounts of alphanumeric data: sentences and paragraphs. Up to about 1 gigabyte (GB), but
controls to display a long text are
limited to the first 64,000
characters.
Number Numeric data. 1, 2, 4, 8, or 16 bytes.
Date/Time Dates and times. 8 bytes.
Currency Monetary data, stored with 4 decimal places of precision. 8 bytes.
AutoNumber Unique value generated by Access for each new record. 4 bytes (16 bytes for
ReplicationID).
Yes/No Boolean (true/false) data; Access stores the numeric value zero (0) for false, and -1 1 byte.
for true.
OLE Object Pictures, graphs, or other ActiveX objects from another Windows-based application. Up to about 2 GB.
Hyperlink A link address to a document or file on the Internet, on an intranet, on a local area Up to 8,192 (each part of a
network (LAN), or on your local computer Hyperlink data type can contain up
to 2048 characters).
Attachment You can attach files such as pictures, documents, spreadsheets, or charts; each Up to about 2 GB.
Attachment field can contain an unlimited number of attachments per record, up to
the storage limit of the size of a database file.
Calculated You can create an expression that uses data from one or more fields. You can Dependent on the data type of the
designate different result data types from the expression. Result Type property.
Lookup When you choose this entry, a wizard starts to help you define either a simple or Dependent on the data type of the
Wizard complex lookup field. A simple lookup field uses the contents of another table or a lookup field
value list to validate the contents of a single value per row. A complex lookup field
allows you to store multiple values of the same data type in each row.

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