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Applies to: SQL Server Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance Azure Synapse Analytics Analytics Platform System (PDW)
This topic describes the column metadata returned by SQLColumns and SQLProcedureColumns, and the data type metadata returned by SQLGetTypeInfo.
Remarks
The following column values are returned for date/time types by SQLColumns and SQLProcedureColumns.
Parameter Type | date | time | smalldatetime | datetime | datetime2 | datetimeoffset |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DATA_TYPE | SQL_TYPE_DATE | SQL_SS_TIME2 | SQL_TYPE_TIMESTAMP | SQL_TYPE_TIMESTAMP | SQL_TYPE_TIMESTAMP | SQL_SS_TIMESTAMPOFFSET |
TYPE_NAME | date | time | smalldatetime | datetime | datetime2 | datetimeoffset |
COLUMN_SIZE | 10 | 8,10..16 | 16 | 23 | 19, 21..27 | 26, 28..34 |
BUFFER_LENGTH | 6 | 10 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 20 |
DECIMAL_DIGITS | 0 | 0..7 | 0 | 3 | 1..7 | 1..7 |
SQL_DATA_TYPE | SQL_DATETIME | SQL_SS_TYPE_TIME2 | SQL_DATETIME | SQL_DATETIME | SQL_DATETIME | SQL_SS_TYPE_TIMESTAMPOFFSET |
SQL_DATETIME_SUB | SQL_CODE_DATE | NULL | SQL_CODE_TIMESTAMP | SQL_CODE_TIMESTAMP | SQL_CODE_TIMESTAMP | NULL |
CHAR_OCTET_LENGTH | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL |
SS_DATA_TYPE | 0 | 0 | 111 | 111 | 0 | 0 |
The following column values are returned for date/time types by SQLGetTypeInfo:
Parameter Type | date | time | smalldatetime | datetime | datetime2 | datetimeoffset |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
TYPE_NAME | date | time | smalldatetime | datetime | datetime2 | datetimeoffset |
DATA_TYPE | SQL_TYPE_DATE | SQL_SS_TIME2 | SQL_TYPE_TIMESTAMP | SQL_TYPE_TIMESTAMP | SQL_TYPE_TIMESTAMP | SQL_SS_TIMESTAMPOFFSET |
COLUMN_SIZE | 10 | 16 | 16 | 23 | 27 | 34 |
LITERAL_PREFIX | ' | ' | ' | ' | ' | ' |
LITERAL_SUFFIX | ' | ' | ' | ' | ' | ' |
CREATE_PARAMS | NULL | scale | NULL | NULL | scale | scale |
NULLABLE | SQL_NULLABLE | SQL_NULLABLE | SQL_NULLABLE | SQL_NULLABLE | SQL_NULLABLE | SQL_NULLABLE |
CASE_SENSITIVE | SQL_FALSE | SQL_FALSE | SQL_FALSE | SQL_FALSE | SQL_FALSE | SQL_FALSE |
SEARCHABLE | SQL_PRED_SEARCHABLE | SQL_PRED_SEARCHABLE | SQL_PRED_SEARCHABLE | SQL_PRED_SEARCHABLE | SQL_PRED_SEARCHABLE | SQL_PRED_SEARCHABLE |
UNSIGNED_ATTRIBUTE | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL |
FXED_PREC_SCALE | SQL_FALSE | SQL_FALSE | SQL_FALSE | SQL_FALSE | SQL_FALSE | SQL_FALSE |
AUTO_UNIQUE_VALUE | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL |
LOCAL_TYPE_NAME | date | time | smalldatetime | datetime | datetime2 | datetimeoffset |
MINIMUM_SCALE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
MAXIMUM_SCALE | 0 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 7 |
SQL_DATA_TYPE | SQL_DATETIME | SQL_SS_TIME2 | SQL_DATETIME | SQL_DATETIME | SQL_DATETIME | SQL_SS_TYPE_TIMESTAMPOFFSET |
SQL_DATETIME_SUB | SQL_CODE_DATE | NULL | SQL_CODE_TIMESTAMP | SQL_CODE_TIMESTAMP | SQL_CODE_TIMESTAMP | NULL |
NUM_PREC_RADIX | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL |
INTERVAL_PRECISION | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL |
USERTYPE | 0 | 0 | 12 | 22 | 0 | 0 |
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