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Ports Properties

Port properties for a physical data object include port names and port attributes such as data type and precision.

The following table describes the ports properties that you configure for complex file targets:

Property	Description
Name	The name of the resource.
Type	The native data type of the resource.
Precision	The maximum number of significant digits for numeric data types, or the maximum number of characters for string data types.
Scale	The scale for each column. Scale is the maximum number of digits that a column can accommodate to the right of the decimal point. Applies to decimal columns. The scale values you configure depend on the data type.
Detail	The detail of the data type.
Description	The description of the resource.