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Short Text (formerly Text) is a simple data type. A field with this data type is limited to a maximum of 255 characters in length, which is controlled by field size. It's a good idea to consider the actual length of the data that will be used in that field and set the field size accordingly.

A Long Text field can be useful for storing large amounts of information, such as notes, comments, and descriptions. The Long Text data type stores up to 65,536 alphanumeric characters and supports rich text formatting, such as different colors, fonts, and highlighting.

Numeric data types are numbers stored in database columns. These data types are typically grouped by: Exact numeric types, values where the precision and scale need to be preserved. The exact numeric types are INTEGER , BIGINT , DECIMAL , NUMERIC , NUMBER , and MONEY .

AutoNumber is a type of data used in Microsoft Access tables to generate an automatically incremented numeric counter. It may be used to create an identity column which uniquely identifies each record of a table. Only one AutoNumber is allowed in each table. The data type was called Counter in Access 2.0.

The TIME data type consists of a time in hour, minutes, seconds, optional fractions of a second, and optional time zone. (Optional) Indicates the number of digits of precision in the fractions of seconds, as an integer value from 0 to 9.