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SQL programmingYou can use the HCL OneDB™ implementation of the SQL language to develop applications for HCL OneDB™ database servers.
Guide to SQL: ReferenceThe HCL OneDB™ Guide to SQL: Reference contains the reference information for the system catalog tables, data types, and environment variables of the HCL OneDB™ dialect of the SQL language, as implemented in HCL OneDB™. These topics also include information about the stores_demo, sales_demo, and superstore_demo databases that are included with HCL OneDB™.
Data typesEvery column in a table in a database is assigned a data type. The data type precisely defines the kinds of values that you can store in that column.
Description of Data Types
INTEGER data typeThe INTEGER data type stores whole numbers that range from -2,147,483,647 to 2,147,483,647 for 9 or 10 digits of precision.

INTEGER data type

The INTEGER data type stores whole numbers that range from -2,147,483,647 to 2,147,483,647 for 9 or 10 digits of precision.

The number 2,147,483,648 is a reserved value and cannot be used. The INTEGER value is stored as a signed binary integer and is typically used to store counts, quantities, and so on.

Arithmetic operations and sort comparisons are performed more efficiently on integer data than on float or decimal data. INTEGER columns, however, cannot store absolute values beyond (2³¹-1). If a data value lies outside the numeric range of INTEGER, the database server does not store the value.

INTEGER data types require 4 bytes of storage per value.