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 Attivio database.
Attivio Data Type |
Spotfire Data Type |
VARBINARY |
Binary |
BOOLEAN |
Boolean |
BIGDECIMAL |
Currency |
DECIMAL |
Currency |
NUMERIC |
Currency |
DATE |
Date |
TIMESTAMP |
DateTime |
BYTE |
Integer |
INTEGER |
Integer |
SERIAL |
Integer |
SHORT |
Integer |
SMALLINT |
Integer |
TINYINT |
Integer |
BIGINT |
LongInteger |
LONG |
LongInteger |
DOUBLE |
Real |
FLOAT |
SingleReal |
REAL |
SingleReal |
CHAR |
String |
STRING |
String |
VARCHAR |
String |
TIME |
Time |
Any other data types are not supported.