IBM DB2 Data Types - GRAPHIC

Versions: IBM DB2 9.x, 8.x, 7.x, 6.1 and 5.2

DB2 - GRAPHIC
Syntax	GRAPHIC[(n)]
Data	Fixed-length double-byte character data
Parameters	n is the maximum number of characters, optional
Range	1 ⇐ n ⇐ 127
Default	n is 1
Padding	Right-padded with spaces to n
Empty String	'' is treated as empty string
Storage Size	n*2 bytes
Standards	DB2 Extension

IBM DB2 GRAPHIC - Equivalents in Other Databases

Database	Data Type and Conversion
Oracle	NCHAR(n), 1 ⇐ n ⇐ 2000/charsize, Unicode - UTF-8 or UTF-16
SQL Server	NCHAR(n), 1 ⇐ n ⇐ 4000, Unicode - UCS-2
MySQL	NCHAR(n), 0 ⇐ n ⇐ 255, Unicode - UTF-8 and TEXT or VARCHAR(n), if n > 255
PostgreSQL	CHAR(n), 1 ⇐ n ⇐ 1G
Sybase ASE	NCHAR(n), 1 ⇐ n ⇐ pagesize (2K, 4K, 8K or 16K); UNICHAR(n), 1 ⇐ n ⇐ pagesize, Unicode
Sybase ASA	NCHAR(n), 1 ⇐ n ⇐ 8191, Unicode - UTF-8
Informix DS	NCHAR(n), 1 ⇐ n ⇐ 32767, database character set
Teradata	CHAR(n), 1 ⇐ n ⇐ 64000/charsize
HP Neoview	NCHAR(n), 1 ⇐ n ⇐ 4036, Unicode - UCS-2 or ISO88591 (Latin1)
Interbase/Firebird	NCHAR(n), 1 ⇐ n ⇐ 32767, single-byte ISO8859_1 (Latin 1); CHAR(n), 1 ⇐ n ⇐ 32767, with CHARACTER SET UTF-8
Ingres	NCHAR(n), 1 ⇐ n ⇐ 16000, Unicode - UTF-8

All Data Types

Oracle

SQL Server

IBM DB2

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Sybase ASE

Sybase ASA

Informix DS

Teradata

HP Neoview

Interbase/Firebird

Ingres