All DAO objects have properties that define their characteristics. You can retrieve the values of properties to see the characteristics of an object, and you can change the values of properties to change the characteristics of an object.
Properties are represented by Property objects. Property objects themselves contain properties, as described in the following table.
| Property | Data type | Description |
| Name | Text | Name of the property |
| Value | Variant | Value of the property |
| Type | Integer | Data type of the property |
| Inherited | Boolean | Identifies the property as inherited from another object. For example, a recordset Field property inherited from a field in a TableDef object. |