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Supported Oracle Datatypes

This release continues to support the following Oracle datatypes:

Large objects (LOBs)

In Oracle Database Server, programmers can define large objects, often called LOBs. These can store such things as text, images, or video.

This release supports the following Oracle Database Server large object datatypes:

User-defined objects

In Oracle Database Server, programmers can define object types (also called user-defined types), which are composites based on the existing single-element datatypes supported by Oracle. Using these object definitions, programmers can then create various kinds of tables.

Currently supported Oracle objects include:

This release also supports the Oracle FLOAT datatype. It maps this datatype to its own NUMBER datatype.


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