In computer science, a data type is a data storage format that can contain a specific type of range of values. Basically, when data is stored, each unit must be assigned to a specific type in order to be universally useful.
Data type characteristics and requirements can vary drastically between programming languages. And, of course, the Structured Query Language (SQL) is no exception to this. In this chapter, we’ll be examining how the R2DBC specification provides support for common SQL data types, how they are mapped to the Java ...
