Each instance of this class or its descendant represent a base data type supported by a DBMS: such as CHAR, DATE etc.

Storage options (such as VARCHAR's length, DECIMAL precision etc.) are not reflected here: they are properties of individual DbColumns.

Properties

Name	Type	Description
name	String	The name of the type, good for using in CREATE TABLE statement, uppercase.

Instances of the base DbType class are presumed to represent special types not convertible by any ALTER TABLE statements (such as Oracle's BLOB, PostgreSQL' BYTEA and so on). Most types used in business applications are presumed to be represented by DbType descendants, such as:

• DbTypeArithmetic
  • DbTypeArithmeticFixed
  • DbTypeArithmeticFloat
  • DbTypeArithmeticInt
• DbTypeCharacter
• DbTypeTemporal
  • DbTypeDate
  • DbTypeTimestamp