Data Types
Table 1. Data Types
Conversion Table
MSSQL Ver
Data Type
Firebird
MSSQL
definition and comments
6.5
bigint
INT64
8-byte integer type.
6.5
binary
CHAR
Fixed-length binary data with a maximum length of 8,000 bytes. In
6.5, maximum was 255.
6.5
bit
CHAR(1)
Integer data with either a 1 or 0 value. Typically, replaced by
constants ‘T’ and ‘F’.
6.5
char
CHAR
Fixed-length non-Unicode character data with a maximum length of
8,000 characters. In 6.5, maximum was 255. Firebird can [...]
