Chapter 9 Generating Other Models from a PDM
PowerDesigner supports both physical and object language data types.
The following table lists the physical data types to which the object language definition assigns translations:
Physical data type |
Code in PDM |
What it stores |
Translation example with Java |
|---|---|---|---|
| Char | A | Character strings | char |
| Numeric(1) | BL | Two opposing values (true/false; yes/no; 1/0) | boolean |
| Smallint | BT | 256 values | byte |
| Integer | SI | 16-bit integer | short |
| Integer | LI | 32 bit integer | integer |
| Integer | I | 32 bit integer | long |
| Float | F | 32 floating point numbers | float |
| Numeric | N | Numbers with a fixed decimal point | double |
| Long varchar | TXT | Character strings | String |
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