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 a Teradata Aster database.
Teradata Data Type |
Spotfire Data Type |
BYTEA |
Binary |
BOOL |
Boolean |
DATE |
Date |
TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE |
DateTime |
TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE |
DateTime |
INTEGER |
Integer |
SMALLINT |
Integer |
BIGINT |
LongInteger |
DOUBLE PRECISION |
Real |
REAL |
SingleReal |
BIT |
String |
CHARACTER |
String |
INTERVAL |
String |
IP4 |
String |
IP4RANGE |
String |
TEXT |
String |
UNKOWN |
String |
UUID |
String |
VARBIT |
String |
VARCHAR |
String |
TIME WITH TIME ZONE |
Time |
TIME WITHOUT TIME ZONE |
Time |
NUMERIC |
When p <= 9 and
s = 0: Integer |
Any other data types are not supported.
Note: User defined data types, including geometry types, are not supported.