Column

Restriction: This topic applies to Windows environments only.

A column is an attribute (or characteristic) of the entities described by the rows of a database table or result table. Each column is associated with a column name and a data type. Although the terms field and column are frequently used interchangeably in discussions of SQL programming; when we use the term field in the context of relational tables, we are referring to the intersection of a row and a column in a table or query result.