How to Create a CLOB in Oracle. Oracle's namesake database management system has a data type called a CLOB, or Character Large OBject. Though the standard character data type, called CHAR, has a ...

Integer to Character Conversion in SQL. SQL is a widely-used programming language for computer databases in business. Frequently, software developers need to combine different kinds of data, such ...

The differences in processing efficiency between MySQL’s three character storage types should not have a big impact on processing times unless your data sets are extremely large.

ODBC Data Types and Default SAS Formats shows all of the data types and default SAS formats that are supported by the ODBC engine. This table does not explicitly define the data types as they exist ...

Every column in a table has a name and a data type. The data type tells ORACLE how much physical storage to set aside for the column and the form in which the data is stored. ORACLE data types fall ...

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.