2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Scalar Datatype Reference
Abstract
Choosing proper datatypes to match the domain to satisfy logical modeling is an important task. One datatype might be more efficient than another of a similar type. For example, you can store integer data in an integer datatype, a numeric datatype, a floating point datatype, a character type, or even a binary column, but these datatypes certainly aren’t alike in implementation or performance.