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DataType Issue From Oracle to SQL

  • January 17, 2012 at 1:44 pm

    #249829

    Hello Friends,

    I am trying to migrate one database from oracle to sql 2008 and confused with one particular datatype. In oracle I have a datatype “Number” and I am using “Numeric” in SQL server. Can you guys tell me if it is an appropriate datatype for this conversion? Please Help

  • January 17, 2012 at 1:54 pm

    #1434854

    Per Oracle, Numeric is for fixed and floating point numbers. That's more similar to SQL Server's Float/Real datatype.

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  • January 17, 2012 at 1:58 pm

    #1434858

    it depends; you have to look at oracle and see the size that is assigned; you can't just read NUMBER, when you describe the table you need the size also:, like NUMBER(10~= integer, and NUMBER(19,4) is ~= money.

    i do a lot of SQL to Oracle conversions, and use this page as a handy reference:

    http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/gateways.102/b14270/apa.htm

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