Data types
- Last Updated: July 30, 2025
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- DataDirect Connectors
- ODBC
- Salesforce 8.0
- Documentation
The following table lists native data types supported by the driver and how they are mapped to ODBC data types.
| Salesforce Data Type | ODBC Data Type |
|---|---|
| ANYTYPE | SQL_VARCHAR |
| AUTONUMBER | SQL_VARCHAR |
| BINARY | SQL_LONGVARBINARY |
| CHECKBOX | SQL_BIT |
| COMBOBOX | SQL_VARCHAR |
| CURRENCY | SQL_DECIMAL |
| CURRENCYDOUBLE | SQL_DOUBLE |
| DATACATEGORYGROUPREFERENCE | SQL_VARCHAR |
| DATE | SQL_TYPE_DATE |
| DATETIME | SQL_TYPE_TIMESTAMP |
| SQL_VARCHAR | |
| ENCRYPTEDTEXT | SQL_VARCHAR |
| HTML | SQL_LONGVARCHAR |
| ID | SQL_VARCHAR |
| INT | SQL_INTEGER |
| LOCATION | SQL_VARCHAR |
| LONGTEXTAREA | SQL_LONGVARCHAR |
| MULTISELECTPICKLIST | SQL_VARCHAR |
| NUMBER | SQL_DOUBLE |
| NUMBERDECIMAL | SQL_DECIMAL |
| PERCENT | SQL_DECIMAL |
| PERCENTDOUBLE | SQL_DOUBLE |
| PHONE | SQL_VARCHAR |
| PICKLIST | SQL_VARCHAR |
| REFERENCE | SQL_VARCHAR |
| TEXT | SQL_VARCHAR |
| TEXTAREA | SQL_VARCHAR |
| TIME | SQL_TYPE_TIME |
| UNKNOWN | SQL_VARCHAR |
| URL | SQL_VARCHAR |