The Map to MSS Datetime Type for option is disabled by default for BLOBs in order to provide backward compatibility, which means that the default behavior is to use the behavior from the previous release, mapping to the DATETIME data type, and not the new data types.

The following table depicts mapping between the ABL BLOB data type and its MS SQL Server equivalent during a schema pull.

Table 1. BLOB data type in schema pull
MS SQL Server Data Type OpenEdge Data Type
MSS 2005 MSS 2008 Prior to 11.0 11.0 and later
VARBINARY(MAX) VARBINARY(MAX) CHAR CHAR, BLOB
IMAGE IMAGE CHAR CHAR, BLOB
VARBINARY(MAX) FILESTREAM Non-applicable BLOB

For more information on ABL-to-MS SQL Server data type mapping, see Data types.