SAP Sybase ASE Writer: User Attributes

For information on the parameters in this dialog that are specific to all formats, see About Writer Feature Types: User Attributes

User attributes for this format are defined below.

Name The name of the field to be written.
Type

This section describes the attribute types for a table.

bigdatetime

This type is used to represent date and time data from January 1, 0001 to December 31, 9999 with microsecond precision.

See Standard FME Date and Time Format.

bigint

This type is used to represent 64-bit signed integers.

bigtime

This type is used to represent time data with microsecond precision.

See Standard FME Date and Time Format.

binary

This type is used to represent fixed length binary data up to a length of 255 bytes.

bit

This type is used to represent the logical values true and false. Bit columns cannot be null and cannot have indexes specified.

char

This type is used to represent fixed length character data.

date

This type is used to represent date data from January 1, 0001 to December 31, 9999.

See Standard FME Date and Time Format.

datetime

This type is used to represent date and time data from January 1, 1753 to December 31, 9999 with up to 1/300 second precision.

See Standard FME Date and Time Format.

decimal

This type is used to represent numeric data with a precision and scale of up to 38 digits.

double

This type is used to represent 64-bit floating precision numeric data.

image

This type is used to represent binary data up to a length of 2^31-1 bytes.

int

This type is used to represent 32-bit signed integers.

money

This type is used to represent monetary values between -922,337,203,685,477.5808 and 922,337,203,685,477.5807.

nchar

This type is used to represent fixed length multibyte character data.

numeric

This type is used to represent numeric data with a precision and scale of up to 38 digits. The decimal and numeric types are identical with the exception that a numeric column with a scale of 0 can be specified as an IDENTITY column.

nvarchar

This type is used to represent variable length multibyte character data.

real

This type is used to represent 32-bit floating precision numeric data.

smalldatetime

This type is used to represent date and time data from January 1, 1900 to June 6, 2079 with minute precision.

See Standard FME Date and Time Format.

smallint

This type is used to represent 16-bit signed integers.

smallmoney

This type is used to represent monetary values between -214,748.3648 and 214,748.3647.

text

This type is used to represent character data up to a length of 2,147,483,647 bytes.

time

This type is used to represent time data with millisecond precision.

See Standard FME Date and Time Format.

tinyint

This type is used to represent integers between 0 and 255.

unichar

This type is used to represent fixed length Unicode character data.

univarchar

This type is used to represent variable length Unicode character data.

unsigned bigint

This type is used to represent 64-bit unsigned integers.

unsigned int

This type is used to represent 32-bit unsigned integers.

unsigned smallint

This type is used to represent 16-bit unsigned integers.

varbinary

This type is used to represent variable length binary data up to a length of 255 bytes.

varchar

This type is used to represent variable length character data.

Index

The types of indexes and constraints to create for the column, if the table is created.

Each index and constraint contains only one column.

The valid values for the column type are listed below:

PrimaryKey: This type specifies that the column is a primary key for the table. Only one primary key is allowed per table.

Unique: This type specifies that the column has a UNIQUE constraint.

NotNull: A non-nullable constraint.

Null: A nullable constraint.