Overview of simple types

The topics subordinate to this one give an overview of the simple types, by kind:

• EGL character types

  The types are BYTES, CHAR, DBCHAR, HEX, MBCHAR, STRING, and UNICODE.

• EGL date-and-time types

  The types are DATE, INTERVAL, TIME, and TIMESTAMP.

• EGL large-object types

  The types are BLOB and CLOB.

• EGL numeric types

  The types are BIGINT, BIN, FLOAT, INT, MONEY, NUM, NUMC, NUMBER, PACF, SMALLFLOAT, and SMALLINT.

• BOOLEAN.