query data type sql code example

Example 1: sql data types

# Numeric Types
BIT	TINYINT SMALLINT INT BIGINT DECIMAL NUMERIC FLOAT REAL

# Date & Time Types
DATE TIME DATETIME TIMESTAMP YEAR

# Char & String Types (N) Denotes Unicode Versions
CHAR VARCHAR TEXT NCHAR NVARCHAR NTEXT

# Binary Data Types
BINARY VARBINARY IMAGE

# Misc
CLOB BLOB XML JSON

Example 2: data types in sql

• number(num) - whole numbers up to num digits
• number(num,num2) - num whole numbers up to num2 decimals
• char(num) - fixed length character/string
• varchar2(num) - used for varying length data
• date - full date
• currency - used for prices