Variables Store Many Types of Information

Welcome to Visual Basic 6.0 database and basic programming learning program.

Learning Visual Basic programming by first understanding the usage of variables. Below is a Variable type table with information and memory requirements:

Type	Stores	Memory Requirement
Integer	Whole numbers	2 bytes
Long	Whole numbers	4 bytes
Single	Decimal numbers	4 bytes
Double	Decimal numbers	8 bytes
Currency	4 digits right of the decimal	8 bytes
String	Text information	1 byte
Byte	Whole numbers	1 byte
Boolean	Logical Values	2 bytes
Date	Date and Time	8 bytes
Object	Pictures and OLE objects	4 bytes
Variant	Preceding data types	16 bytes + 1 byte per character