Using Data Types from Other Database Engines : Introduction « Data Types « MySQL Tutorial






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  3. Introduction

MySQL maps data types as shown in the following table.

Other Vendor TypeMySQL Type
BOOLTINYINT
BOOLEANTINYINT
CHARACTER VARYING(M)VARCHAR(M)
FIXEDDECIMAL
FLOAT4FLOAT
FLOAT8DOUBLE
INT1TINYINT
INT2SMALLINT
INT3MEDIUMINT
INT4INT
INT8BIGINT
LONG VARBINARYMEDIUMBLOB
LONG VARCHARMEDIUMTEXT
LONGMEDIUMTEXT
MIDDLEINTMEDIUMINT
NUMERICDECIMAL










10.16.Introduction
10.16.1.The basic datatypes
10.16.2.Date Datatypes
10.16.3.Numeric Types Storage
10.16.4.Numeric Types
10.16.5.ZEROFILL,UNSIGNED,SERIAL,SERIAL DEFAULT VALUE
10.16.6.Using Data Types from Other Database Engines
10.16.7.Data type mapping occurs at table creation time, after which the original type specifications are discarded.
10.16.8.Storage Requirements for Numeric Types
10.16.9.Storage Requirements for Date and Time Types
10.16.10.The format of the zero value for each type.