Using Caché Objects - InterSystems Documentation

Data Types
11.1 Available Types
Caché provides a library of the most common data types including strings, integer, floats,
timestamps and so on. These are:
Caché Data Type Classes
Class Name
%Binary
%Boolean
%Currency
%Date
%Float
%Integer
%List
%Name
%Numeric
%Status
%String
%Time
%TimeStamp
Holds
binary data
a boolean value
a currency value
a date
a floating point value
an integer
data in $List format
a name in the form “
Lastname,Firstname”
a numeric values of
varying precision
an error status code
a string
a time value
a value for a time and
date
Analogous SQL Type(s)
BINARY, BINARY VARYING, RAW, VBINARY
N/A
MONEY, SMALLMONEY
DATE
DOUBLE, DOUBLE PRECISION, FLOAT,
REAL
BIT, INT, INTEGER, SMALLINT, TINYINT
N/A
N/A
DEC, DECIMAL, NUMBER, NUMERIC
N/A
CHAR, CHAR VARYING, CHARACTER,
CHARACTER VARYING, NATIONAL CHAR,
NATIONAL CHAR VARYING, NATIONAL
CHARACTER, NATIONAL CHARACTER
VARYING, NATIONAL VARCHAR, NCHAR,
NVARCHAR, VARCHAR, VARCHAR2
TIME
TIMESTAMP
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