The topics list and describe the data types supported by Oracle BI EE, and contains information about the data type limitations, other Oracle BI Server limitations, and floating point limitations.
You can learn how to use the Oracle BI Server nqcmd
utility to run the NQSGetSQLDataTypes
procedure to obtain information about the data types.
When you import metadata from a data source into the repository's physical layer, each column is assigned a data type. The data type is associated with a specific storage format, constraints, and a valid range of values.
This appendix contains the following topics: