Review the use of numeric, image, text, date, time,
and char data.
Numeric Datatype
The SybPreparedStatement extension supports the way Adaptive Server handles the NUMERIC datatype where precision (total digits) and scale (digits after the decimal) can be specified.
Image Datatype
jConnect has a TextPointer class with sendData methods for updating an image column in an Adaptive Server or SQL Anywhere database.
Text Datatype
In jConnect 3.0 and earlier versions, a TextPointer class is used with sendData methods for updating a text column in an Adaptive Server or SQL Anywhere database.
Date and Time Datatypes
jConnect for JDBC supports the Adaptive Server datetime, smalldatetime, bigdatetime, bigtime, date, and time datatypes: