Basic type specification
Basic types are types, which are predefined in the database. In contrast to the ODMG standard, ODABA supports some additional basic types as described below. Some extensions have been made also to specific type specifications.
Definition:
base_type_spec := floating_pt_type | integer_type | char_len_types | boolean_type | octet_type | date_type | time_type | timestamp_type | bit_type
Subtopics
- REAL - Float point number
- Integer or decimal number
- Sized character fields
- LOGICAL - Boolean values
- Octet values
- DATE - Date values
- TIME - Time value
- DATE_TIME - Timestamp
- BIT - Bit strings
- BLOB - Binary large objects
- VOID - Unknown type