Datatype conversion for “transfer from” processing  Processing bulk copy values

Chapter 9: Using Bulk Copy Transfer

Datatype conversion for transfer statements

The following table shows the acceptable source datatypes that the access service can convert into corresponding target destination datatypes.

Table 9-2: Datatype conversions

Source datatypes

Target datatypes

CHAR, VARCHAR, LONGVARCHAR, TEXT (CLOB),

BIGINT, DECIMAL, DOUBLE FLOAT, INTEGER, MONEY, MONEY4, NUMERIC, REAL, SMALLINT, TINYINT

DATETIME, DATETIME4, TIMESTAMP

BINARY, VARBINARY, LONGVARBINARY, IMAGE (BLOB)

BIT

CHAR, VARCHAR, LONGVARCHAR, TEXT (CLOB)

X

X

X

X

X

BIGINT, DECIMAL, DOUBLE, FLOAT, INTEGER, MONEY, MONEY4, NUMERIC, REAL, SMALLINT, TINYINT

X

X

BINARY, VARBINARY, LONGVARBINARY, IMAGE (BLOB)

X

X

DATETIME, DATETIME4, TIMESTAMP

X

X

BIT

X

X

X

Datatypes resulting from this conversion are converted into actual datatypes in the target column, as shown in Table 9-2. If a column match is incompatible, the transfer ends with an error.





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