Data type conversion table: Informix to SQL Server

Table 1. Data type conversion table (Informix to SQL Server)
Informix® data types	Microsoft™ SQL Server data types
`CHAR(n)`	`CHAR(n)` if SBCS, `NCHAR(n)` if UTF-8
`VARCHAR(n[,m])`	`VARCHAR(n)` if SBCS, `NVARCHAR(n)` if UTF-8
`LVARCHAR(n)`	`VARCHAR(n)` if SBCS, `NVARCHAR(n)` if UTF-8
`NCHAR(n)`	`NCHAR(n)` (UNICODE, max is 4000 chars)
`NVARCHAR(n[,m])`	`NVARCHAR(n)` (UNICODE, max is 4000 chars)
`BOOLEAN`	`BIT`
`SMALLINT`	`SMALLINT`
`INTEGER`	`INTEGER`
`BIGINT`	`BIGINT`
`INT8`	`BIGINT`
`SERIAL[(start)]`	`INTEGER` (see note 1)
`BIGSERIAL[(start)]`	`BIGINT` (see note 1)
`SERIAL8[(start)]`	`BIGINT` (see note 1)
`DOUBLE PRECISION / FLOAT[(n)]`	`FLOAT(n)`
`REAL / SMALLFLOAT`	`REAL`
`DECIMAL(p,s)`	`DECIMAL(p,s)`
`DECIMAL(p)` with p<=19	`DECIMAL(2*p,p)`
`DECIMAL(p)` with p>19	N/A
`DECIMAL`	`DECIMAL(32,16)`
`MONEY(p,s)`	`DECIMAL(p,s)`
`MONEY(p)`	`DECIMAL(p,2)`
`MONEY`	`DECIMAL(16,2)`
`DATE`	`DATE`
`DATETIME HOUR TO SECOND`	`TIME(0)`
`DATETIME HOUR TO FRACTION(n)`	`TIME(n)`
`DATETIME YEAR TO SECOND`	`DATETIME2(0)`
`DATETIME q1 TO q2` (different from above)	`DATETIME2(n)`
`INTERVAL q1 TO q2`	`CHAR(50)`
`TEXT`	`VARCHAR(MAX)`
`BYTE`	`VARBINARY(MAX)`

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