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- From: cortesi@informix.com (David Cortesi)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: Re: Do you know the coltype converstion?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.172154.25385@informix.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 17:21:54 GMT
- References: <riskit-240193081954@47.201.0.36>
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- Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
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- In article <riskit-240193081954@47.201.0.36> riskit@x400gate.bnr.ca (Reg Foulkes) writes:
- >I need to build a lookup table for coltype in syscolumns. Does anyone have
- >a list of the conversions?
- >On my system if we do:
- >
- > Select coltype from syscolumns
- > where tabid = "some number"
- >
- >I will get a list of numbers ...
-
- These are documented quite clearly in chapter 2 of the Informix
- Guide to SQL: Reference. Look up the description of Syscolumns.
- The coltype value is not a simple integer mapping; there are
- meanings to some of the bits as well.
-