What field type do I must use in access2000?

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Lee Tow

Hello all:
I want to create a table using access2000,and one field
can be put a picture,I want to know how to do?thank you very much.
 
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Tom Wickerath

Hi Lee,

If you want to embed the image, you use an OLE Object datatype. Beware that
doing so can lead to some really serious bloat in the file size of Access
databases. Here is an answer that I have copied from MVP Larry Linson (posted
7/22/2005):

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The sample imaging databases at http://accdevel.tripod.com illustrate three
approaches to handling images in Access, and the download includes an
article discussing considerations in choosing an approach. Two of the
approaches do not use OLE Objects and, thus, avoid the database bloat, and
some other problems, associated with images in OLE Objects.

If you are printing the images in reports, to avoid memory leakage, you
should also see MVP Stephen Lebans' http://www.lebans.com/printfailures.htm.
PrintFailure.zip is an Access97 MDB containing a report that fails during
the Access formatting process prior to being spooled to the Printer Driver.
This MDB also contains code showing how to convert the contents of the Image
control to a Bitmap file prior to printing. This helps alleviate the "Out of
Memory" error that can popup when printing image intensive reports.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP

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Tom
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Hello all:
I want to create a table using access2000,and one field
can be put a picture,I want to know how to do?thank you very much.
 
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