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  1. Preface
  2. Introduction to Test Data Management
  3. Test Data Manager
  4. Projects
  5. Policies
  6. Data Discovery
  7. Creating a Data Subset
  8. Performing a Data Masking Operation
  9. Data Masking Techniques and Parameters
  10. Data Generation
  11. Data Generation Techniques and Parameters
  12. Working with Test Data Warehouse
  13. Analyzing Test Data with Data Coverage
  14. Plans and Workflows
  15. Monitor
  16. Reports
  17. ilmcmd
  18. tdwcmd
  19. tdwquery
  20. Appendix A: Data Type Reference
  21. Appendix B: Data Type Reference for Test Data Warehouse
  22. Appendix C: Data Type Reference for Hadoop
  23. Appendix D: Glossary

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Oracle

Oracle

The following table describes the operations that you can perform on data types in Oracle database:
Data Types
Data Movement
Entity Criteria
Data Masking
Data Generation
Profiling
Comments
Binary_Double
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Binary_Float
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blob
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
You can perform nullification masking.
Char
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Clob
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Date
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
You cannot run data domain profiles.
Dburitype
No
No
No
Yes
No
Use dictionary generation rule to generate data.
Decimal(P,S)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
You cannot run entity profiles.
Float
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
You cannot run entity profiles.
To generate test data, you enter a precision value less than 15.
Httpuritype
No
No
No
Yes
No
Use dictionary generation rule to generate data.
Integer
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interval day to second
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
You can enter the following criteria: Is Null, Is Not NulI, Like, Not Like, Is Empty, and Is Not Empty.
For the Interval day(9) to second(9) data type, you must set the precision greater than 18.
Interval year to month
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
You can enter the following entity criteria: Is Null, Is Not NulI, Like, Not Like, Is Empty, and Is Not Empty.
For the Interval year(9) to month data type, you must set the precision greater than 11.
Use dictionary generation rule to generate data.
Long
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
In a sequence generation rule, you cannot choose to start the sequence from the last output value.
Longraw
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
You can perform nullification masking.
Use dictionary generation rule to generate data.
Longvarchar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
In a sequence generation rule, you cannot choose to start the sequence from the last output value.
Nchar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Nclob
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Use string generation rule to generate data.
Number
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Nvarchar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Nvarchar2(N)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
You can perform nullification masking.
Use dictionary generation rule to generate data.
Real
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
You cannot run entity profiles.
Rowid
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Smallint
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Timestamp
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
You cannot run data domain profiles.
Timestamp with time zone
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
You can enter the following entity criteria: Is Null, Is Not NulI, Like, Not Like, Is Empty, and Is Not Empty.
Urowid
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Varchar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Varchar2(N)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
You can enter the following entity criteria: Is Null, Is Not NulI, Is Empty, and Is Not Empty.
If you assign a dictionary generation rule that contains specified invalid values for the XML data type in an Oracle database, the data generation task fails.
Xdburitype
No
No
No
Yes
No
Use dictionary generation rule to generate data.
You cannot perform data masking, data subset, profiling, and data generation operations on the following Oracle data types:
  • Anydata
  • Anydataset
  • Anytype
  • Bfile
  • Ordaudio
  • Orddicom
  • Orddoc
  • Ordimage
  • Ordimagesignature
  • Ordvideo
  • Sdo_Geometry
  • Sdo_Georaster
  • Sdo_Topo_Geometry
  • SI_Averagecolor
  • SI_Color
  • SI_Colorhistogram
  • SI_Featurelist
  • SI_Positionalcolor
  • SI_Stillimage
  • SI_Texture
  • Timestamp with local time zone
  • Uritype
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