Jan 1, 2000 · Data types and aliasesData types and aliases

A data type represents a set of values. Using data types in your databases offers the following benefits:

Jan 1, 2000 · To run R user-defined functions on the server requires a good understanding of how different data types in Netezza are represented and processed by the Netezza R libraries.

When you are converting source data to the Netezza Performance Server system, you might need to analyze the data to determine the smallest data type that you can use. To determine the smallest …

When a job runs, the stage maps InfoSphere® DataStage® data types to Netezza® data types.

The data types nchar, nvarchar and json are stored as UTF-8 encoded Unicode (Unicode Version 6.0.0 ISO/IEC 10646:2011).

Integer types are exact data types. The system generates an error if a value of the input field cannot be expressed without loss of accuracy in the target table.

Feb 4, 2002 · The system supports the time, timestamp, and time with time zone data types. These data types are exact types, stored to the accuracy of 1μSec (1/1,000,000 of a second).

Netezza Update Stage supports Netezza SQL datatypes listed in the following table. The following table summaries a one-to-one mapping between Netezza Performance Server, ODBC, and Orchestrate …

Although you can store any value in a character string, use character strings only if other data types are inappropriate. Other data types provide better data validation and more compact storage.