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ASA Programming Guide
  Embedded SQL Programming

Embedded SQL data types


To transfer information between a program and the database server, every piece of data must have a data type. The embedded SQL data type constants are prefixed with DT_, and can be found in the sqldef.h header file. You can create a host variable of any one of the supported types. You can also use these types in a SQLDA structure for passing data to and from the database.

You can define variables of these data types using the DECL_ macros listed in sqlca.h. For example, a variable holding a BIGINT value could be declared with DECL_BIGINT.

The following data types are supported by the embedded SQL programming interface:

The structures are defined in the sqlca.h file. The VARCHAR, BINARY, and DECIMAL types contain a one-character array and are thus not useful for declaring host variables but they are useful for allocating variables dynamically or typecasting other variables.

DATE and TIME database types 

There are no corresponding embedded SQL interface data types for the various DATE and TIME database types. These database types are all fetched and updated using either the SQLDATETIME structure or character strings.

For more information see GET DATA statement [ESQL] and SET statement.


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