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<strong>Data</strong> Type Compatibility<br />

This section addresses compatibility issues when using the OpenEdge® <strong>SQL</strong> environment and<br />

earlier versions of the Progress® database. Specifically, it discusses mapping between<br />

Advanced Business Language (ABL) supported data types and the corresponding OpenEdge<br />

<strong>SQL</strong> data types.<br />

Supported ABL data types and corresponding OpenEdge <strong>SQL</strong> data types<br />

OpenEdge <strong>SQL</strong> supports many data types that do not correspond to ABL data types. Table 44<br />

lists the ABL data types that do correspond to OpenEdge <strong>SQL</strong> data types.<br />

Table 44: ABL and corresponding OpenEdge <strong>SQL</strong> data types<br />

ABL data type OpenEdge <strong>SQL</strong> data type<br />

ARRAY VARARRAY<br />

BLOB BLOB<br />

CHARACTER VARCHAR<br />

CLOB CLOB<br />

DATE DATE<br />

DATETIME TIMESTAMP<br />

DATETIME-TZ TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE<br />

DECIMAL DECIMAL or NUMERIC<br />

INTEGER INTEGER<br />

INT64 BIGINT

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