Shelley Doll finishes her coverage of SQL data types with an overview of datetime and interval data types. Learn more about the basic syntax of these standard SQL types. Datetimes and intervals are ...

Note: The SAS/ACCESS interface does not support the following DB2 data types: BLOB, CLOB, and DBCLOB. specifies a varying-length column for character string data. The maximum length of the string is ...

The advanced data types introduced in this section give a relational database more flexibility in what can be used as a value for a table column. For example, a column can be used to store BLOB ...

For more information on these data types, see your Oracle Rdb documentation. LONG VARCHAR varying-length column for character string data, which has 16,383 characters. LONG VARCHAR is equivalent to ...

Microsoft made a series of database announcements at the Ignite conference, including the general availability of SQL Server 2025.