Product specifications

14.2 Large variable length data limitation
Restriction:
The limitation only relates to Crystal Reports applications.
Due to Data Access layer implementation, the maximum size of a column for large variable length binary
and character data is limited to 16MB for the following data sources:
• IBM DB2 through ODBC
• MS SQL Server through ODBC
• Sybase CTL
If an application user inserts large variable length data larger than 16MB into a report, system
performance may be affected.
14.3 Multisource universes
In the case of a multisource-enabled data foundation, Connection Server data types are converted into
the data types exposed through Data Federation Service.
Data Federation data types are the following:
• BIT
• DATE
• TIME
• TIMESTAMP
• DOUBLE
• DECIMAL
• INTEGER
• VARCHAR
They are mapped to the corresponding data foundation data types.
Caution:
BINARY, VARBINARY, and LONGVARBINARY types are not supported and values of these types are
mapped to NULL.
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Data type conversion reference