Unicode default forward data type mappings for ODBC data sources

The following table lists the default forward data type mapping for ODBC data sources when the federated database is a Unicode database.

Table 1. Unicode default forward data type mappings for ODBC data sources
UTF-8 ODBC
Data type Data type Length
CHAR SQL_CHAR 1 to 254 bytes
VARCHAR SQL_CHAR 255 to 32672 bytes
SQL_VARCHAR 1 to 32672 bytes
CLOB SQL_LONGVARCHAR -
GRAPHIC SQL_WCHAR 1 to 127 characters
VARGRAPHIC SQL_WCHAR 128 to 16336 characters
SQL_WVARCHAR 1 to 16336 characters
DBCLOB SQL_WLONGVARCHAR -