A Data Type Conversion

This appendix contains the following section:

Data Type Conversion

The gateway converts Teradata data types to Oracle data types as follows:

Table A-1 Data Type Mapping and Restrictions

Teradata	Oracle	Criteria	If Oracle uses large varchar (32k)
`BLOB`	`LONG RAW`
`BYTE`	`RAW`	-
`BYTEINT`	`NUMBER(3)`	`BYTEINT` range is -128 to +127
`CHAR`	`CHAR`	-
`CHAR CHARACTER SET UNICODE`	`CHAR`	-
`CLOB`	`LONG`
`DATE`	`CHAR(10)`	-
`DECIMAL`	`NUMBER(p[,s])`	-
`FLOAT`	`FLOAT(24)`	with precision <= single precision float
`FLOAT`	`FLOAT(53)`	with precision > single precision float
`INTEGER`	`NUMBER(10)`	`NUMBER` range is `-2,147,483,648` to `2,147,483,647`
`INTERVAL`	`CHAR`	-
`LONG` `VARCHAR` `CHARACTER SET UNICODE`	`LONG`	if Oracle DB Character Set = Unicode. Otherwise, it is not supported.
`LONG` `VARCHAR`	`LONG`	if Oracle DB Character Set = Unicode. Otherwise, it is not supported
`SMALLINT`	`NUMBER(5)`	`NUMBER` range is `-32768` to `32767`
`TIME`	`CHAR(15)`	-
`TIMESTAMP`	`DATE`	-
`VARBYTE`	`RAW`	`1` < = `N` < = `2000`	`1` <= `N` <= `32767`
`VARBYTE`	`LONG RAW`	`2000` < `N`	`N` < `32767`
`VARCHAR`	`VARCHAR2` `LONG`	`N` < = `4000` `4000` < `N`	`N` <= `32767` `32767` < `N`
`VARCHAR() CHARACTER SET UNICO`	`NVARCHAR2`	`N < = 2000` `4000` < `N`