Field_Type

The type of the column.

Supported By

SQL Drivers (SQL Server, DB2 and ODBC), DataFlex Pervasive.SQL Driver

Value

ASCII, BCD, BINARY, DATE, TEXT. OVERLAP*

Associated Attribute

DF_FIELD_TYPE (Enum list)

Remarks

Sets the data-type information for a field. This is used with Pervasive.SQL for example, when we want to mark a field as a DataFlex Overlap* field because, according to Pervasive.SQL, those fields are just string fields. This is because Pervasive.SQL doesn't support the Overlap field type. It is used with the SQL Drivers to determine if a SQL_DateTime type should be mapped to a DataFlex Date or DateTime type.

Note

Overlap columns were replaced by multi-segment relationships in DataFlex 11.0 and are obsolete.

See Also

Column Keywords