Question

I have the displeasure of generating table creation scripts for Microsoft Access. I have not yet found any documentation describing what the syntax is for the various types. I have found the documentation for the Create Table statement in Access but there is little mention of the types that can be used. For example:

CREATE TABLE Foo (MyIdField *FIELDTYPE*) 

Where FIELDTYPE is one of…? Through trial and error I’ve found a few like INTEGER, BYTE, TEXT, SINGLE but I would really like to find a page that documents all to make sure I’m using the right ones.

Answer 1

I’ve found the table in the link below pretty useful:

http://allenbrowne.com/ser-49.html

It lists what Access’s Gui calls each data type, the DDL name, DAO name and ADO name (they are all different…).