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DaoField:Attributes Access/Assign

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Purpose

A long value that describes the miscellaneous characteristics of a Field object

 

dbAutoIncrFieldThe field value for new records is automatically incremented to a unique Long integer that can't be changed (in a Microsoft Jet workspace                  , supported only for Microsoft Jet database(.mdb) tables)        
dbDescendingThe field is sorted in descending (Z to A or 100 to 0) order; this option applies only to a Field object in a Fields collection of an Index object. If you omit this constant, the field is sorted in ascending (A to Z or 0 to 100) order. This is the default value for Index and TableDef fields (Microsoft Jet workspaces only)..        
dbFixedFieldThe field size is fixed (default for Numeric fields).        
dbHyperlinkFieldThe field contains hyperlink information (Memo fields only).        
dbSystemFieldThe field stores replication information for replicas; you can't delete this type of field (Microsoft Jet workspaces only).        
dbUpdatableFieldThe field value can be changed.        
dbVariableFieldThe field size is variable (Text fields only).        

 

Class

DaoField

 

Example

Fields Sample