Question

Name the data type that should be used to store Student’s Admission numbers.
[Examples of Admission number; S100, S101, S102] CBSE 2008

Answer 1

Answer:

data type should be text

Explanation:

(i) VARCHAR (ii) CHAR, DATE

Answer 2

The data type that should be used to store Student’s Admission numbers is text data type.

Explanation:

• The data type defines the attribute of a data.
• A programmer uses data type to help the compiler to identify the usage of certain data.
• There are three fundamental data types which include integer (numbers), decimal (floating numbers) and text.
• The text data type is alphanumeric. It comprises numbers, uppercase, lowercase, symbols and spaces.
• This data type is generally used to denote geographic location, customer IDs and so on.