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Client APIs and toolsYou can use the HCL OneDB™ implementation of client APIs to develop applications for HCL OneDB™ database servers.
ESQL/C GuideThe topics explain how to use HCL OneDB™ ESQL/C, the HCL OneDB™ implementation of Embedded Structured Query Language (SQL) for C (ESQL/C), to create client applications with database-management capabilities. The HCL® OneDB® ESQL/C Programmer's Manual explains how to use HCL OneDB™ ESQL/C, the HCL OneDB™ implementation of Embedded Structured Query Language (SQL) for C (ESQL/C), to create client applications with database-management capabilities.
What is HCL OneDB™ ESQL/C?
Numeric data types
The integer data types
The INT8 and SERIAL8 SQL data typesHCL OneDB™ ESQL/C supports the SQL INT8 and SERIAL8 data types with the int8 data type. The int8 data type is a machine-independent method that represents numbers in the range -(2⁶³ -1) to 2⁶³-1.

The INT8 and SERIAL8 SQL data types

HCL OneDB™ ESQL/C supports the SQL INT8 and SERIAL8 data types with the int8 data type. The int8 data type is a machine-independent method that represents numbers in the range -(2⁶³ -1) to 2⁶³-1.

For a complete description of the INT8 and SERIAL8 SQL data types, see the HCL OneDB Guide to SQL: Reference. This section describes how to manipulate the HCL OneDB ESQL/C data type, int8.