Article ID: 104977
Article Last Modified on 1/18/2007
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- Microsoft Access 1.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Access 1.1 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Access 2.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Access 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Access 97 Standard Edition
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SUMMARY
Column, or field, data types are different for each database management system. This means that when you are accessing table structures from other database management systems, a conversion, or data type mapping, must occur. This article describes the data type mapping between ORACLE and Microsoft Access data types.
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The following table demonstrates data type mapping between ORACLE and Microsoft Access data types:
ORACLE data type Maps to Microsoft Access data type
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Char(n) Text(n)
VarChar(n) Text(n)
Long Memo
Date Date/Time
Long Raw Ole Object
Float Double
RowID Text(18)
Smallint Text(255)
Note that the Smallint data type is the same as an ORACLE data type of
Number(38,0).
In ORACLE, the creator of the table can define the precision (the total number of digits) and scale (the number of digits to the right of the decimal point) for columns with Number data types. If a Number data type is specified without a precision or scale, the column defaults to a data type of Number(9,2). The scale limit is 38, and a scale without a precision is allowed. Values with different precisions and scales are mapped as below:
ORACLE number Microsoft Access data type
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Scale = 0 and
precision <= 4 Integer
precision <= 9 Long Integer
precision <= 15 Double
Scale > 0 and <= 4
precision <= 15 Double
Scale > 4 and/or
precision > 15 Text
If an ORACLE data type is defined with a precision and scale that does not map to any data type in Microsoft Access, it will be mapped to a text data type. For example, an ORACLE Smallint data type, which is actually a Number(38,0) data type, will map into Microsoft Access as a text data type because Microsoft Access does not have a number value of 38 precision.
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