odbcDataType {odbc}

Return the corresponding ODBC data type for an R object

Description

This is used when creating a new table with dbWriteTable(). Databases with default methods defined are:

• MySQL

• PostgreSQL

• SQL Server

• Oracle

• SQLite

• Spark

• Hive

• Impala

• Redshift

• Vertica

• BigQuery

• Teradata

• Access

• Snowflake

Usage

odbcDataType(con, obj, ...)

Arguments

con

A driver connection object, as returned by dbConnect().

obj

An R object.

...

Additional arguments passed to methods.

Details

If you are using a different database and dbWriteTable() fails with a SQL parsing error the default method is not appropriate, you will need to write a new method. The object type for your method will be the database name retrieved by dbGetInfo(con)$dbms.name. Use the documentation provided with your database to determine appropriate values for each R data type.

Value

Corresponding SQL type for the obj.