C to SQL: Year-Month Intervals

The identifiers for the year-month interval ODBC C data types are:

SQL_C_INTERVAL_MONTH SQL_C_INTERVAL_YEAR SQL_C_INTERVAL_YEAR_TO_MONTH

The following table shows the ODBC SQL data types to which year-month interval C data may be converted. For an explanation of the columns and terms in the table, see Converting Data from C to SQL Data Types.

SQL type identifier Test SQLSTATE
SQL_CHAR[a]

SQL_VARCHAR[a]

SQL_LONGVARCHAR[a]
Column byte length >= Character byte length

Column byte length < Character byte length[a]

Data value is not a valid interval literal
n/a

22001

22015
SQL_WCHAR[a]

SQL_WVARCHAR[a]

SQL_WLONGVARCHAR[a]
Column character length >= Character length of data

Column character length < Character length of data[a]

Data value is not a valid interval literal
n/a

22001

22015
SQL_TINYINT[b]

SQL_SMALLINT[b]

SQL_INTEGER[b]

SQL_BIGINT[b]

SQL_NUMERIC[b]

SQL_DECIMAL[b]
Conversion of a single-field interval did not result in truncation of whole digits

Conversion resulted in truncation of whole digits
n/a

22003
SQL_INTERVAL_MONTH

SQL_INTERVAL_YEAR

SQL_INTERVAL_YEAR_TO_MONTH
Data value was converted without truncation of any fields

One or more fields of data value were truncated during conversion
n/a

22015

[a] All C interval data types can be converted to a character data type.

[b] If the type field in the interval structure is such that the interval is a single field (SQL_YEAR or SQL_MONTH), the interval C type can be converted to any exact numeric (SQL_TINYINT, SQL_SMALLINT, SQL_INTEGER, SQL_BIGINT, SQL_DECIMAL, or SQL_NUMERIC).

The default conversion of an interval C type is to the corresponding year-month interval SQL type.

The driver ignores the length/indicator value when converting data from the interval C data type and assumes that the size of the data buffer is the size of the interval C data type. The length/indicator value is passed in the StrLen_or_Ind argument in SQLPutData and in the buffer specified with the StrLen_or_IndPtr argument in SQLBindParameter. The data buffer is specified with the DataPtr argument in SQLPutData and the ParameterValuePtr argument in SQLBindParameter.