Any data that does not fall into the traditional field structure (alpha, numeric, dates) of a relational DBMS. Examples of complex data types are bills of materials, word processing documents, maps, ...

Microsoft on Thursday leaned more heavily into its support for “data types” within Excel, going beyond the staid concept of numbers and formulas to embrace a huge variety of elements that could reside ...

I'm writing out some values to the Registry using the RegistryKey class. Most are strings but two are longs. How is the RegistryKey class determining what data type to use? One of the longs is being ...