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Oracle® Database Gateway for Sybase User's Guide
11g Release 1 (11.1)

Part Number B31048-02
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A Data Type Conversion

This appendix contains the following section:

A.1 Data Type Conversion

The gateway converts Sybase data types to Oracle data types as follows:

Table A-1 Data Type Conversions

Sybase Oracle Comment

BIGINT

NUMBER(19)


BINARY

RAW

-

BIT

NUMBER(3)

-

CHAR

CHAR

-

DATE

DATE


DATETIME

DATE

-

DECIMAL

NUMBER(p[,s])

-

FLOAT

FLOAT(53)

-

IMAGE

LONG RAW

-

INT

NUMBER(10)

NUMBER range is -2,147,483,647 to 2,147,483,647

MONEY

NUMBER(p[,s])

-

NUMERIC

NUMBER(p[,s])

-

REAL

FLOAT(24)

-

SMALLDATETIME

DATE

-

SMALLINT

NUMBER(5)

NUMBER range is -32,767 to 32,767

SMALLMONEY

NUMBER(p[,s])

-

SYSNAME

VARCHAR2


TEXT

LONG

-

TIME

CHAR(15)


TIMESTAMP

RAW


TINYINT

NUMBER(3)

-

UNICHAR

NCHAR

-

UNSIGNED BIGINT

NUMBER(20)


UNSIGNED INT

NUMBER(10)


UNSIGNED SMALLINT

NUMBER(5)


UNITEXT

LONG

if Oracle DB Character Set = Unicode. Otherwise, it is not supported

UNIVARCHAR

NVARCHAR

-

VARBINARY

RAW

-

VARCHAR

VARCHAR2

-