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IBM DB2 Data Types - GRAPHIC
Versions: IBM DB2 9.x, 8.x, 7.x, 6.1 and 5.2
DB2 - GRAPHIC | |
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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 |
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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 |
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