Chapter 1: New Features in Adaptive Server Version 15.0

big int support

Adaptive Server version 15.0 includes the exact numeric datatype bigint

This is the range of numbers allowed by the bigint datatype:

**Table 1-1: Ranges for bigint datatype**
Datatype	Range of signed datatypes
bigint	Whole numbers between -2⁶³ and 2⁶³ - 1 (from -9,223,372,036,854,775,808 to +9,223,372,036,854,775,807, inclusive.

Adaptive Server’s bigint support also adds the hextobigint, biginttohex, and count_big functions. For more information about these functions, see Chapter 2, “System Changes in Adaptive Server Version 15.0,” and the Reference Manual: Blocks.