[AccessD] Why 255?

Gary Kjos garykjos at gmail.com
Tue Oct 18 12:14:55 CDT 2005


Hi Lonnie,

Hexidecimal FF = 255. Or actually binary 11111111 = 255 it's the
largest number you can express in a single byte

GK

On 10/18/05, Lonnie Johnson <prodevmg at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I know this is going to be an easy one for most of you? I am a developer but I don't know this. Why does Access have some limits of 255 for a lot of things such as number of fields in a table, number of concurrent users and so forth?
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