OpenEdge Data Management: DataServer for Microsoft SQL Server

Data Type Details
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14. When mapping of the MS SQL Server datetime or smalldatetime data types is to the OpenEdge DATE data
type, OpenEdge truncates the time portion of the date.
15. The DataServer considers a timestamp data type to be a hidden value. It is not visible to the user, but you can
still access a MS SQL Server table that contains a timestamp column.
16. Identity columns are limited by SQL Server to one per table. Creating an identity column to define
PROGRESS_RECID is the preferred method of supporting the ROWID function. See the “ROWID function” section
on page 2–52 for more information. If your SQL Server table has an existing identity column, turn off the mandatory
flag, and set its initial value to the Unknown value (?) in your schema holder to prevent the DataServer from
attempting to overwrite the identity value generated by SQL Server.