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Definition

The data type (data_type) TIMESTAMP defines an alphanumeric column in which time values can be stored.

A time stamp value is a special character string. A time stamp consists of a date value and time value and a microsecond specification.

A time stamp value can be compared to other time stamp values, numbers and to character strings with the code attributes ASCII and UNICODE.

The data type TIMESTAMP is specified during column definition.