The DataType type exposes the following members.
Properties
| Name | Description | |
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 | AutoIndexUniqueValueCount | Gets the unique value count threshold value for auto-indexing. An imported column with a
unique value count less or equal to this threshold will always be indexed.
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 | AvailableDataTypes | Gets the available data types.
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| DefaultComparer |
Gets the default comparer for this DataType.
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| DefaultValue | Gets the default value for the underlying type. |
| Formatter | Gets a default, user localized, read-only formatter for this data type.
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| InvariantFormatter | Gets a read-only formatter for this data type that does invariant formatting.
This formatting is independent of localization and uses InvariantCulture.
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| IsNumeric | Gets a value indicating whether the data type is numeric or not,
that is, Integer,
Currency, Real, LongInteger or SingleReal |
| IsSimple | Gets a value indicating whether the data type is considered simple or not.
E.g. String and int (etc) are simple, Binary is not.
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| IsTime | Gets a value indicating whether the data type represents time or not,
that is, Date, Time or DateTime.
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| Name | Gets the type name.
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| NullValue |
Gets a null (empty) value for the underlying type.
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| RepresentationType | Gets the representation type of the data type. This is the .NET type that
values of this data type are stored as.
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