Chapter 3. Storing Your Program’s Data
All programs use data. Access is a kind of program that uses two types of data: permanent and temporary. Permanent data can be stored in a database; this type of data is remembered even when Access is not running in memory. Temporary data, on the other hand, is used by your program in memory but is not kept in memory when your Access program is not running.
Permanent memory involves the use of magnetic media, such as a floppy or hard disk drive, a CD-ROM drive, or a tape drive. Temporary memory is the memory used in integrated semiconductor computer chips, called Random Access Memory, or RAM.
In this hour, you will learn how to store data temporarily in RAM. The temporary RAM memory is where data manipulation ...
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