Cannot join on Memo, OLE, or Hyperlink Object

Question

I have a basic table in an Access database. In that table, I have a 10-digit numeric field that is stored as Long Text (leading zeros are significant). I extracted the unique

Answer 1

Access does not allow Joins based on Long Text fields. That's the "memo" it is referring to. I assume Microsoft's rationale is that basing a Join on a paragraph of text is unreasonable.

More here: https://kb.tableau.com/articles/issue/error-cannot-join-on-memo-ole-or-hyperlink-object-when-joining-access-tables