Java&MySQL Type Mapping

MySQL Type Name

Return value of

GetColumnClassName

Returned as Java Class

BIT(1) (new in MySQL-5.0)

BIT

java.lang.Boolean

BIT( > 1) (new in MySQL-5.0)

BIT

byte[]

TINYINT

TINYINT

java.lang.Boolean if the configuration property tinyInt1isBit is set to true (the default) and the storage size is 1, orjava.lang.Integer if not.

BOOL, BOOLEAN

TINYINT

See TINYINT, above as these are aliases forTINYINT(1), currently.

SMALLINT[(M)] [UNSIGNED]

SMALLINT [UNSIGNED]

java.lang.Integer (regardless ifUNSIGNED or not)

MEDIUMINT[(M)] [UNSIGNED]

MEDIUMINT [UNSIGNED]

java.lang.Integer, if UNSIGNEDjava.lang.Long (C/J 3.1 and earlier), orjava.lang.Integer for C/J 5.0 and later

INT,INTEGER[(M)] [UNSIGNED]

INTEGER [UNSIGNED]

java.lang.Integer, if UNSIGNEDjava.lang.Long

BIGINT[(M)] [UNSIGNED]

BIGINT [UNSIGNED]

java.lang.Long, if UNSIGNEDjava.math.BigInteger

FLOAT[(M,D)]

FLOAT

java.lang.Float

DOUBLE[(M,B)]

DOUBLE

java.lang.Double

DECIMAL[(M[,D])]

DECIMAL

java.math.BigDecimal

DATE

DATE

java.sql.Date

DATETIME

DATETIME

java.sql.Timestamp

TIMESTAMP[(M)]

TIMESTAMP

java.sql.Timestamp

TIME

TIME

java.sql.Time

YEAR[(2|4)]

YEAR

If yearIsDateType configuration property is set to false, then the returned object type isjava.sql.Short. If set to true (the default), then the returned object is of typejava.sql.Date with the date set to January 1st, at midnight.

CHAR(M)

CHAR

java.lang.String (unless the character set for the column is BINARY, then byte[] is returned.

VARCHAR(M) [BINARY]

VARCHAR

java.lang.String (unless the character set for the column is BINARY, then byte[] is returned.

BINARY(M)

BINARY

byte[]

VARBINARY(M)

VARBINARY

byte[]

TINYBLOB

TINYBLOB

byte[]

TINYTEXT

VARCHAR

java.lang.String

BLOB

BLOB

byte[]

TEXT

VARCHAR

java.lang.String

MEDIUMBLOB

MEDIUMBLOB

byte[]

MEDIUMTEXT

VARCHAR

java.lang.String

LONGBLOB

LONGBLOB

byte[]

LONGTEXT

VARCHAR

java.lang.String

ENUM(‘value1‘,‘value2‘,...)

CHAR

java.lang.String

SET(‘value1‘,‘value2‘,...)

CHAR

java.lang.String