By using a relational database package output Ashton-Tate as a reference, it is understandable that the type of data, files, and even many commands and functions are similar, in general, the type of data used in this package is divided into five kinds, namely:
Numeric
Numeric data types are useful to accommodate the amount of sequence data of the digits 0 to 9 which will be processed in mathematical operations, can be added, subtracted, multiplied or processed using other mathematical functions. Buisa numerical data are in accordance with 16 digit precision and the numerical value data can also contain a decimal number
Character
Character data type can hold all the computer characters that can be used. Type the characters a wider use of numeric data types, and data can accommodate karaklter characters 0-9, AZ, az, punctuation and other characters. The nature of this type of character called alfanumeric, because the type of data that can be accepted adalaha numeric or character string data, but it must be remembered that the characters here are not operated mathematically, for example, telephone numbers, house numbers.
Date
Date data type used to store data that obey the laws BC calendar, database packages already mempersiapkansatu types of data that is specific to the data date of receipt, and the type of data in the format U.S. : MM/DD/YY.
Memo
The data type of memo to fit the data, which contains a brief description of the package database, prepared a special data type. These data types can store data with a maximum of 4000 bytes or characters/digits.
This data type was created because there is data that cannot be determined with certainty, incoming numeric or character and Forms data format, you can also freely as you write with wordprocessing.
Logic
The data type of logic to receive data that can only be filled with yes or no, because sex can be sure if someone does not believe her husband. Things like that can be grouped into logical data type, because in pengisianya has only two alternative answers true or false / yes or no