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  iAnywhere Solutions ODBC Driver for DB2

Data types


The following table shows how the DB2 data types map to the standard ODBC data types.

DB2 ODBC
Bigint1 SQL_BIGINT
Blob2 SQL_LONGVARBINARY
Char SQL_CHAR
Char() for Bit Data SQL_BINARY
CLOB3 SQL_LONGVARCHAR
Date SQL_TYPE_DATE
Decimal SQL_DECIMAL
Float SQL_DOUBLE
Integer SQL_INTEGER
Long Varchar SQL_LONGVARCHAR
Long Varchar for Bit Data SQL_LONGVARBINARY
Smallint SQL_SMALLINT
Time SQL_TYPE_TIME
Timestamp SQL_TYPE_TIMESTAMP
Varchar SQL_VARCHAR
Varchar() for Bit Data SQL_VARBINARY

1 - Supported on DB2 Universal Database 8.1.

2 - Supported on DB2 Universal Database 8.1.

3 - On DB2 Universal Database versions previous to 8.1, only the first 32Kb of the Clob data type are returned when fetching, and only 32Kb can be inserted and updated.


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