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Teradata datatypes supported by MicroStrategy


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This article shows which Teradata datatypes are supported by MicroStrategy datatypes.
Currently MicroStrategy supports 24 out of 41 data types which is 55% of the data types in SQL server.


Supported data types:

Teradata Data type

MicroStrategy Datatype

DATE

DATE

TIME

TIME(6)

TIMESTAMP

TIMESTAMP(7)

SMALLINT

INTEGER(5)

BIGINT

BIGINT(19)

INTEGER

INTEGER(10)

BIGINT

INTEGER(19)

DECIMAL (n,m)

DECIMAL(10,10)

REAL

REAL

DOUBLE

DOUBLE

FLOAT

DOUBLE

VARCHAR(n)

VARCHAR(n)

BLOB (n)

Long VarBin(0)

CLOB (n)

Long VarChar(0)

 
Starting with Teradata 14.0, there is a NUMBER (n,m) datatype.


Unsupported data types:
  • BYTE(n), BYTEINT, CHARACTER(n), VARBYTE(n), UDT, INTERVAL and ARRAY 
  • JSON, XML, Time with Time Zone, Timestamp with Time Zone, ST_Geometry, CLOB,  BLOB,  Graphic, VarGraphic, MBR (minimum bounding rectangle), MBB (Minimum bounding box ) , Interval Data To Second, Interval Year to Month

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Published:

August 16, 2017

Last Updated:

January 21, 2026