SQL Datatype Objects

• The Type Hierarchy
  • The “CamelCase” datatypes
  • The “UPPERCASE” datatypes
  • Backend-specific “UPPERCASE” datatypes
  • Using “UPPERCASE” and Backend-specific types for multiple backends
  • Generic “CamelCase” Types
  • SQL Standard and Multiple Vendor “UPPERCASE” Types
• Custom Types
  • Overriding Type Compilation
  • Augmenting Existing Types
  • TypeDecorator Recipes
    • Coercing Encoded Strings to Unicode
    • Rounding Numerics
    • Store Timezone Aware Timestamps as Timezone Naive UTC
    • Backend-agnostic GUID Type
    • Marshal JSON Strings
  • Applying SQL-level Bind/Result Processing
  • Redefining and Creating New Operators
  • Creating New Types
  • Working with Custom Types and Reflection
• Base Type API