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Data type conversion

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This topic describes the supported scope of data type conversion during data migration from a MySQL database to a MySQL-compatible tenant of OceanBase Database.

Supported data type conversion

Numeric data types

Category	MySQL database	MySQL-compatible tenant of OceanBase Database
Integer data types You can specify the length and the SIGNED, UNSIGNED, or ZEROFILL attribute of an integer field.	INT	INT
	TINYINT	TINYINT
	SMALLINT	SMALLINT
	MEDIUMINT	MEDIUMINT
	BIGINT	BIGINT
	BOOL/BOOLEAN	BOOLEAN
Fixed-point data types	DECIMAL	DECIMAL
Fixed-point data types	NUMERIC	NUMERIC
Floating-point data types	REAL	FLOAT
	DOUBLE	DOUBLE
	FLOAT	FLOAT
BIT data type	BIT	BIT

Character data types

MySQL databases	MySQL-compatible tenants of OceanBase Database
CHAR	CHAR
NCHAR	CHAR
VARCHAR	VARCHAR
BINARY	BINARY
VARBINARY	VARBINARY
LONG VARBINARY	BLOB

Date and time data types

MySQL databases	MySQL-compatible tenants of OceanBase Database
YEAR	YEAR
DATE	DATE
TIME	TIME
TIMESTAMP	TIMESTAMP
DATETIME	DATETIME

BLOB and TEXT data types

MySQL databases	MySQL-compatible tenants of OceanBase Database
TINYBLOB	TINYBLOB
MEDIUMBLOB	MEDIUMBLOB
BLOB	BLOB
LONGBLOB	LONGBLOB
TINYTEXT	TINYTEXT
MEDIUMTEXT	MEDIUMTEXT
TEXT	TEXT
LONGTEXT	LONGTEXT

Enumeration and set data types

MySQL databases	MySQL-compatible tenants of OceanBase Database
ENUM	ENUM
SET	SET

JSON data type

MySQL databases	MySQL-compatible tenants of OceanBase Database
JSON	TEXT (for MySQL-compatible tenants of OceanBase Database of a version earlier than V3.2.3) or JSON (for MySQL-compatible tenants of OceanBase Database V3.2.3 and later)

GIS data types

Notice

OceanBase Database V3.2.4 and V4.1.0 support the following GIS data types.

MySQL databases	MySQL-compatible tenants of OceanBase Database
GEOMETRY	GEOMETRY
GEOMETRYCOLLECTION	GEOMETRYCOLLECTION
POINT	POINT
MULTIPOINT	MULTIPOINT
LINESTRING	LINESTRING
MULTILINESTRING	MULTILINESTRING
POLYGON	POLYGON
MULTIPOLYGON	MULTIPOLYGON

Unsupported data type conversion

Notice

If a data type that cannot be converted is used in a statement, the generated statement will be empty.

The SERIAL type is not supported.

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OceanBase Migration Service

V4.2.4Enterprise Edition

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Data migration
- Overview
- Migrate data from a MySQL database to a MySQL-compatible tenant of OceanBase Database
- Migrate data from a MySQL-compatible tenant of OceanBase Database to a MySQL database
- Migrate data from an Oracle database to a MySQL-compatible tenant of OceanBase Database
- Migrate data from an Oracle-compatible tenant of OceanBase Database to an Oracle database
- Migrate data from an Oracle database to an Oracle-compatible tenant of OceanBase Database
- Migrate data from a DB2 LUW database to an Oracle-compatible OceanBase database
- Migrate data from an Oracle-compatible tenant of OceanBase Database to a DB2 LUW database
- Migrate data from a DB2 LUW database to a MySQL-compatible tenant of OceanBase Database
- Migrate data from a MySQL-compatible tenant of OceanBase Database to a DB2 LUW database
- Migrate data within OceanBase Database
- Create an active-active disaster recovery task in OceanBase Database
- Migrate data from a TiDB database to a MySQL-compatible tenant of OceanBase Database
- Migrate data from a PostgreSQL database to a MySQL-compatible tenant of OceanBase Database
- Migrate data from a PolarDB-X 1.0 database to a MySQL-compatible tenant of OceanBase Database
- Migrate incremental data from an Oracle-compatible tenant of OceanBase Database to a MySQL database
- Manage data migration tasks
  - View details of a data migration task
  - Rename a data migration task
  - View and modify migration objects
  - Use tags to Manage data migration tasks
  - Perform batch operations on data migration tasks
  - Download and import settings of migration objects
  - View and modify the parameter configurations of a data migration task
  - Start and pause a data migration task
  - Release and delete a data migration task
- Supported DDL operations and limits for synchronization
  - Synchronize DDL operations from a MySQL database to a MySQL-compatible tenant of OceanBase Database
    - Overview
    - CREATE TABLE
      - Create a table
      - Create a column
      - Create an index or a constraint
      - Create partitions
    - Data type conversion
    - ALTER TABLE
      - Modify a table
      - Operations on columns
      - Operations on constraints and indexes
      - Operations on partitions
    - TRUNCATE TABLE
    - RENAME TABLE
    - DROP TABLE
    - CREATE INDEX
    - DROP INDEX
    - DDL incompatibilities between a MySQL database and a MySQL-compatible tenant of OceanBase Database
      - Overview
      - Incompatibilities of the CREATE TABLE statement
        Incompatibilities of CREATE TABLE
        Column types that are supported to create indexes or constraints
      - Incompatibilities of the ALTER TABLE statement
        Incompatibilities of ALTER TABLE
        Change the type of a constrained column
        Change the type of an unconstrained column
        Change the length of a constrained column
        Change the length of an unconstrained column
        Delete a constrained column
      - Incompatibilities of DROP INDEX operations
  - Synchronize DDL operations from a MySQL-compatible tenant of OceanBase Database to a MySQL database
  - DDL operations for synchronizing data from an Oracle database to an Oracle-compatible tenant of OceanBase Database
    - Overview of DDL synchronization from Oracle to an Oracle-compatible tenant of OceanBase Database
    - CREATE TABLE
      - Overview
      - Create a relational table
        Create a relational table
        Define columns of a relational table
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        Overview
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    - CREATE INDEX
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      - Modify tables
      - Modify, drop, and add table attributes
      - Column attribute management
        Modify, drop, and add column attributes
        Rename a column
        Add columns and column attributes
        Modify column attributes
        Drop columns
      - Modify, drop, and add constraints
      - Partition management
        Modify, drop, and add partitions
        Drop partitions
        Drop subpartitions
        Add partitions and subpartitions
        Modify partitions
        Truncate partitions
    - DROP TABLE
    - RENAME OBJECT
    - TRUNCATE TABLE
    - DROP INDEX
    - DDL incompatibilities between an Oracle database and an Oracle-compatible tenant of OceanBase Database
      - Overview
      - Incompatibilities of CREATE TABLE
      - Incompatibilities in table modification operations
        Incompatibilities of ALTER TABLE
        Change the type of a constrained column
        Change the type of an unconstrained column
        Change the length of a constrained column
        Change the length of an unconstrained column
  - DDL synchronization from an Oracle-compatible tenant of OceanBase Database to an Oracle database
  - Synchronize DDL operations from a DB2 LUW database to an Oracle-compatible tenant of OceanBase Database
  - Synchronize DDL operations from an Oracle-compatible tenant of OceanBase Database to a DB2 LUW database
  - Synchronize DDL operations from a DB2 LUW database to a MySQL-compatible tenant of OceanBase Database
  - Synchronize DDL operations from a MySQL-compatible tenant of OceanBase Database to a DB2 LUW database
  - DDL synchronization between MySQL-compatible tenants of OceanBase Database
  - DDL synchronization between Oracle-compatible tenants of OceanBase Database
Data synchronization
- Overview
- Synchronize data from OceanBase Database to a Kafka instance
- Synchronize data from OceanBase Database to a RocketMQ instance
- Synchronize data from OceanBase Database to a DataHub instance
- Synchronize data from an ODP logical table to a physical table in a MySQL-compatible tenant of OceanBase Database
- Synchronize data from an ODP logical table to a DataHub instance
- Synchronize data from an IDB logical table to a physical table in a MySQL-compatible tenant of OceanBase Database
- Synchronize data from an IDB logical table to a DataHub instance
- Synchronize data from a MySQL database to a DataHub instance
- Synchronize data from an Oracle database to a DataHub instance
- Manage data synchronization tasks
  - View details of a data synchronization task
  - Change the name of a data synchronization task
  - View and modify synchronization objects
  - Use tags to Manage data synchronization tasks
  - Perform batch operations on data synchronization tasks
  - Download and import the settings of synchronization objects
  - View and modify the parameter configurations of a data synchronization task
  - Start and pause a data synchronization task
  - Release and delete a data synchronization task
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- Create data sources
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  - Create a RocketMQ data source
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  - Create a PostgreSQL data source
  - Create a PolarDB-X 1.0 data source
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- Create a database user
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- Minimum privileges required when an Oracle database serves as the source
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Reference Guide
- Features
  - Configure DDL/DML synchronization
  - Supported DDL operations for synchronization
  - Rename a migration or synchronization object
  - Use SQL conditions to filter data
  - Set an incremental synchronization timestamp
  - Configure matching rules
  - Wildcard patterns supported for matching rules
  - Hidden column mechanisms
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  - Create and update a heartbeat table
  - Change the topic
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- API Reference
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- FAQ
FAQ
- General O&M
  - How do I modify the resource quotas of an OMS container?
  - How do I troubleshoot the OMS server down issue?
  - Deploy InfluxDB for OMS
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- Task diagnostics
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  - How do I perform performance tuning for Oracle Store?
  - What do I do when Oracle Store reports an error at the isUpdatePK stack?
  - What do I do when a store does not have data of the timestamp requested by the downstream?
  - What do I do when OceanBase Store failed to access an OceanBase cluster through RPC?
  - How do I use LogMiner to pull data from an Oracle database?
- OPS & monitoring
  - What are the alert rules?
- Data synchronization
  - FAQ about synchronization to a message queue
    - What are the strategies for ensuring the message order in incremental data synchronization to Kafka
- Data migration
  - User privileges
    - What privileges do I need to grant to a user during data migration to or from an Oracle database?
  - Full migration
    - How do I query the ID of a checker?
    - How do I query log files of the Checker component of OMS?
    - How do I query the verification result files of the Checker component of OMS?
    - What do I do if the destination table does not exist?
    - What can I do when the full migration failed due to LOB fields?
    - What do I do if garbled characters cannot be written into OceanBase Database V3.1.2?
  - Incremental synchronization
    - How do I skip DDL statements?
    - How do I migrate an Oracle database object whose name exceeds 30 bytes in length?
    - How do I update whitelists and blacklists?
    - What are the application scope and limits of ETL?
- Installation and deployment
  - How do I upgrade Store?
Release Note
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