Microsoft SDK for Java

Field Class Methods

The Field class has the following methods:

appendChunk appends data to a large text or binary data Field object.
getActualSize returns the actual length of a Field object's value.
getByteChunk retrieves all or part of a Field object's binary data.
getCharChunk retrieves all or part of a Field object's character data.
getDefinedSize and setDefinedSize retrieve or set the data capacity of a Field object, respectively.
getNumericScale and setNumericScale retrieve or set a Byte value that indicates the number of decimal places to which numeric values will be resolved, respectively.
getOriginalValue retrieves the value of a Field that existed in the record before any changes were made.
getPrecision and setPrecision retrieve or set the degree of precision for numeric Field objects, respectively.
getProperties retrieves properties of a Field object.
getStringChunk retrieves all or part of a Field object's string data.
getUnderlyingValue retrieves the current field value from the database.

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