I hear that SQLXML type is being added, though don't know exact status on that. I will follow up to get more info.
Satheesh Rick Hillegas wrote: > According to the January 2004 rev of the DRDA spec, DRDA does not > support the following SQL datatypes which we want to support or > already partially support: > > BOOLEAN > NCHAR > NCLOB > NVARCHAR > SQLXML > > How do we move forward to support these types? Here are some > suggestions. What do you think? > > 1) Wait until the spec owner (Open Group) adds these to a future rev > of DRDA. We would lobby Open Group to do this. > > 2) Create our own, custom-rev of DRDA which supports these datatypes. > Jim Gray seems to think that the spirit of DRDA allows these > customizations (see the following paper: > research.microsoft.com/~gray/papers/SqlAccessVsDrda.doc ). In this > scheme, Derby 10.2 clients and servers would ship with support for the > new datatypes. 10.2 servers would have to do something creative when > 10.1 or db2jcc clients accessed these datatypes. > > 3) Support some other data interchange format, either alongside or in > place of DRDA. > > -Rick > > > > >
