What is the meaning of "field" in Microsoft Access?

Answer 1

Fields are elements of tables within Access and they hold information. For example, lets say you want to create a database that manages the sales of a retail store. You would create a table named "Sales" and within that table, you would define fields that relate to sales. Some examples of the fields would be Sales Date, Sales Time, Product Number, Sales Clerk ID, Quantity Sold, etc. As you define fields in Access, you will chose a format for each field. For example, when setting up a field that will hold a date, chose the "Date\Time" format so Access knows this is a date field for later querying or reporting. You can also give a field a default value, for example today's date to record the day in time this record was added to your database.