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Source Data type

Use this box to specify the data type of the distinct type that you're creating. To specify the data type, click on the down arrow to display a list of data types and select one.

The data type can be one of:

Integer
For a large integer with a precision of 11 digits.

Smallint
For a small integer with a precision of 5 digits.

Bigint
For a large integer with a precision of 19 digits.

Double
For a floating-point number. Double Precision and Float are synonyms for Double.

Decimal
For a decimal number.

Character
For a fixed-length character string.

Varchar
For a varying-length character string with a maximum length of 4000.

Long Varchar
For a varying-length character string with a maximum length of 32700.

BLOB
For a binary large object string.

CLOB
For a character large object string.

DBCLOB
For a varying-length graphic string with a maximum length of 1,073,741,823 double-byte characters.

Graphic
For a fixed-length graphic string of double-byte characters.

Vargraphic
For a varying-length graphic string with a maximum length of 2,000 double-byte characters.

Long Vargraphic
For a varying-length graphic string with a maximum length of 16,350 double-byte characters.

Date
For a date.

Time
For a time.

Timestamp
For a timestamp.

Real
For a single-precision floating-point number.

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