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Oracle® Transparent Gateway for Microsoft SQL Server Administrator's Guide
10g Release 2 (10.2) for Microsoft Windows (32-bit)

Part Number B14270-01
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A Data Type Conversion

This appendix contains the following section:

A.1 Data Type Conversion

The gateway converts Microsoft SQL Server data types to Oracle data types as follows:

Table A-1 Data Type Conversions

Microsoft SQL Server Oracle Comment
BIGINT NUMBER(19)
BINARY RAW -
BIT NUMBER(3) -
CHAR CHAR -
DATETIME DATE Fractional parts of a second are truncated
DECIMAL NUMBER(p[,s]) -
FLOAT FLOAT(49) -
IMAGE LONG RAW -
INTEGER NUMBER(10) NUMBER range is -2,147,483,647 to 2,147,483,647
MONEY NUMBER(19,4) -
NCHAR NCHAR -
NTEXT LONG -
NVARCHAR NCHAR -
NUMERIC NUMBER(p[,s]) -
REAL FLOAT(23) -
SMALL DATETIME DATE The value for seconds is returned as 0
SMALL MONEY NUMBER(10,4) -
SMALLINT NUMBER(5) NUMBER range is -32,767 to 32,767
TEXT LONG -
TIMESTAMP RAW -
TINYINT NUMBER(3) -
UNIQUEIDENTIFIER CHAR(36)
VARBINARY RAW -
VARCHAR VARCHAR2 -