When you are setting up a connection to an external data source, Spotfire needs to map the data types in the data source to data types in Spotfire. See below for a list of the different data types that Spotfire supports and the applied data type mappings when working with an IBM Netezza database.
IBM Netezza Data Type |
Spotfire Data Type |
VARBINARY |
Binary |
BOOLEAN |
Boolean |
DATE |
Date |
TIMESTAMP |
DateTime |
BYTEINT |
Integer |
INTEGER |
Integer |
SMALLINT |
Integer |
BIGINT |
LongInteger |
DOUBLE |
Real |
FLOAT |
SingleReal |
REAL |
SingleReal |
CHAR |
String |
JSON |
String |
NCHAR |
String |
NVARCHAR |
String |
VARCHAR |
String |
TIME |
Time |
NUMERIC(p,s), DECIMAL(p, s) |
When p <= 9 and
s = 0: Integer |
Any other data types are not supported.