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.

varying-length column for character string data, which has 16,383 characters. LONG VARCHAR is equivalent to specifying VARCHAR (16,383). Numeric Data Numeric Data Types Oracle Rdb SQL Description ...

Every column in a table has a name and a data type. The data type tells DB2 how much physical storage to set aside for the column and the form in which the data are stored. DB2 uses IBM SQL data types ...