Shelley Doll finishes her coverage of SQL data types with an overview of datetime and interval data types. Learn more about the basic syntax of these standard SQL types.

Note that the ORACLE7 Server CHAR data type is not equivalent to the ORACLE Version 6 CHAR data type. The ORACLE7 Server CHAR data type is new with ORACLE7 Server and uses blank-padded comparison ...

Have a table (SQL Server 2008) that the user wants to record a fixed 8 character string in. At first glance, a CHAR seems the obvious selection since this value (an 8 character ID, two alpha ...

Note: The SAS/ACCESS interface does not support the following DB2 data types: BLOB, CLOB, and DBCLOB. specifies a varying-length column for character string data. The maximum length of the string is ...