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Databases are used to hold many kinds of data. You could not say that Access, or any other database, is best at handling any particular one. Commonly, text data is a regular data type used, such as in details about people. If you are doing a lot of calculations a spreadsheet may sometimes be better than a database for numbers, but a database can do lots of calculations too. Databases can store dates, logical values (Yes/No), pictures and so on. A database such as Access is designed to deal with data, so it is often what you want to do with that data that may influence how you store and process it and what application to use, rather than the data type itself.

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