SQL Server Data Type Conversions
This section covers data type conversions between the Cloud Portal and SQL Server databases.
Nota
The Alteryx data types listed in this page reflect the raw data type of the converted column. Depending on the contents of the column, the Transformer Page may re-infer a different data type, when a dataset using this type of source is loaded.
Access/Read
Source Data Type | Supported? | Alteryx Data Type |
|---|---|---|
Bigint | Y | Integer |
BIGINT IDENTITY | Y | Integer |
Binary | Y | String (Base64) |
Bit | Y | Bool |
Char | Y | String |
Cursor | N | |
Date | Y | Date |
Datetime | Y | Date |
Datetime2 | Y | Date |
Datetimeoffset | Y | String |
Decimal | Y | Integer/Decimal |
DECIMAL IDENTITY | Y | Integer |
Float | Y | Decimal |
GEOGRAPHY | Y | String |
GEOMETRY | Y | String |
HIERARCHYID | Y | String |
Image | Y | String |
Int | Y | Integer |
INT IDENTITY | Y | Integer |
Money | Y | Decimal |
Nchar | Y | String |
Ntext | Y | String |
Numeric | Y | Integer/Decimal |
NUMERIC IDENTITY | Y | Integer |
Nvarchar | Y | String |
Nvarchar(max) | Y | String |
Real | Y | Decimal |
Smalldatetime | Y | Date |
Smallint | Y | Integer |
SMALLINT IDENTITY | Y | Integer |
Smallmoney | Y | Decimal |
Sql_variant | N | |
Table | N | |
Text | Y | String |
Time | Y | String |
Timestamp | Y | String |
Tinyint | Y | Integer |
TINYINT IDENTITY | Y | Integer |
Uniqueidentifier | Y | String |
Varbinary | Y | String (Base64) |
Varbinary(max) | Y | String (Base64) |
Varchar | Y | String |
Varchar(max) | Y | String |
Xml | Y | String |
Write/Publish
Alteryx Data Type | SQL Server Column Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
Bool | BIT | |
VARCHAR(256) | ||
Integer | BIGINT | |
INT | ||
SMALLINT | ||
DECIMAL | ||
VARCHAR(256) | ||
String | NVARCHAR | |
VARCHAR(256) | ||
Datetime | DATETIME | |
DATETIME2 | ||
TIMESTAMP | ||
VARCHAR(256) | ||
Timestamp | TIME | |
VARCHAR(256) | ||
Float | FLOAT | |
DECIMAL | ||
NUMERIC | ||
VARCHAR(256) | ||
Map | VARCHAR(256) | |
Array | VARCHAR(256) |
Nota
If you are appending to an existing table where a column's Alteryx data type is not mapped to the column data type in the target table, a validation error is thrown, as the platform writes unmapped types as String data type.