The following data types are available in SQL Anywhere:

• Binary data types
• Character data types
• Date/time data types
• Decimal data types
• Domains (user-defined data types)
• Floating-point data types
• Integer data types
• Spatial data types

For more information about data types, see SQL data types.

Any of the character or binary string data types such as CHAR, VARCHAR, LONG VARCHAR, NCHAR, BINARY, VARBINARY, and so on, can be used to store large objects such as images, word-processing documents, and sound files.

For more information about BLOB storage, see Storing BLOBs.