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Field Types

Data Type

Data Code

Description

Example Data

Alpha

A

Alpha Only, no numeric allowed at all, must only be characters.

BLUE

Alpha Numeric

Also known as
Char (xx)
varchar (xx)
nvarchar (xx)

AN

Stores alphanumeric combinations and text.

No symbols or other characters allowed with some basic exceptions which are dot,comma, colon, ampersand.   
Remember some of these have special codes for XML

Bytesize 1234

String

ST

String is really a group of characters stored together as one it can contain numbers, letters and symbols.

Hello World ! [2023]

Bit

B

Boolean data types are very straightforward. A Boolean data type is simply something that only has two possible values, true or false.

The computer will store true as a 1 and false as a 0.

Y or N 

0 or 1

Character

CH

Stores a single character which can be a letter, number or symbol

£

Currency

CU

Same as decimal but to 2dp is required

17.01

Date

DT

dd/mm/yy or dd/mm/yyyy

18/05/18

Decimal

DC

Stores numbers that contain decimal places/values and can also store integers

known as REAL, SINGLE, DOUBLE or FLOAT instead.

17.65665

Email

EMl

Should be standard email format containing the @

sales@here.uk

Integer

IN

Stores positive or negative whole numbers

17

Numeric

N

Numbers only, including phone numbers

01324 722663

Time

TM

hh:mm

11:00

Use

Customers Contacts

Limitations

One line one contact, but a customer can have up to 32000 contacts

Notes

This import originated from an older system so some of the fields are not relevant but remain as part of the standard import tables.               

Fields

Field Name

Field Type

Nulls

 

SiteCode

nvarchar(50)

NULL

Must match to the customer import.

CustomerCode

nvarchar(50)

NULL

Must match to the customer import.

FirstName

nvarchar(50)

NULL

LastName

nvarchar(50)

NULL

Title

nvarchar(50)

NULL

Mr / Mrs / Miss / Ms etc…

Phone

nvarchar(50)

NULL

Fax

nvarchar(50)

NULL

emailAddress

nvarchar(50)

NULL

email

nvarchar(50)

NULL

True / False – will this contact be a goods receipt advice contact

Password

nvarchar(50)

NULL

VCISAccess

nvarchar(50)

NULL

True / False

VCISAdministrator

nvarchar(50)

NULL

True / False

VCISMaintenance

nvarchar(50)

NULL

True / False

VCISOrderAccess

nvarchar(50)

NULL

True / False

EmailGoodsInInvoices

nvarchar(50)

NULL

True / False

EmailGoodsOutInvoices

nvarchar(50)

NULL

True / False

EmailStockStorageInvoices

nvarchar(50)

NULL

True / False

EmailTransportInvoices

nvarchar(50)

NULL

True / False

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