The LIBNAME engine supports SAS Federation Server data types by translating their
definitions to and from predetermined legacy SAS data types, which are SAS numeric
and SAS character. For example, when you use the LIBNAME engine, the CONTENTS procedure
reports a SAS Federation Server DATE
data type as a SAS numeric.
A SAS numeric is a DOUBLE data type, which stores a 64-bit double-precision, floating-point
number. A SAS character is
a CHAR data
type, which stores a fixed-length character string from 1 to 32,767 bytes.
For more information about SAS Federation Server data types and the data types that
are available for data storage in each
data source, see
SAS FedSQL Language Reference.