ODBC and JDBC Guide

Chapter 7
Reference information
ODBC Catalog functions
The ODBC client driver supports the following Catalog functions:
1 SQLTables - catalog information is stored and reported as single part names (table name only).
1 SQLColumns
1 SQLColumnPrivileges
1 SQLDescribeCol
1 SQLGetTypeInfo
JDBC DatabaseMetaData methods
The JDBC client driver supports the following DatabaseMetaData methods:
1 getColumns
1 getColumnPrivileges
1 getMetaData
1 getTypeInfo
1 getTables
1 getTableTypes
1 getVersionColumns
Mapping FileMaker fields to ODBC data types
This table illustrates how FileMaker field types map to the standard ODBC data types.
FileMaker field type Converts to ODBC data type About the data type
text SQL_VARCHAR The maximum column length of text is 1 million characters,
unless you specify a smaller Maximum number of
characters for the text field in FileMaker. FileMaker returns
empty strings as NULL.
number SQL_DOUBLE The FileMaker number field type can contain positive or
negatives values as small as 10
-308
, and as large as 10
+308
,
with up to 15 significant digits.
date SQL_DATE
time SQL_TIME The FileMaker time field type can contain the time of day or
a time interval. A time interval is returned as a time of day,
unless it is less than 0 or greater than 24 hours (both return
a value of 0).
timestamp SQL_TIMESTAMP