Mitsubishi Electric RD81MES96 User Manual page 38

Data category
DB field
DB procedure argument
*1 The data type (DATE) in Oracle can store the date from January 1st in 4712 B.C. to December 31st in 9999 A.D. in Julian calendar.
However, the date in B.C cannot be handled in an MES interface module.
*2 It cannot be specified in DB procedure argument.
*3 It cannot be used for DB procedure argument.
*4 Notation in Access 2013 and Access 2016.
*5 It can be specified when the character set setting in a field of a database is utf8.
*6 It can be specified when the character set setting in a field of a database is other than utf8.
2 SPECIFICATIONS
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2.4 Usable Data for MES Interface Module
Character string
*1
Oracle • NCHAR
• NVARCHAR2
Microsoft SQL • nchar
Server • nvarchar
*3
Microsoft Access 
MySQL • [NATIONAL]
CHAR[(M)]
• [NATIONAL]
VARCHAR(M)
• CHAR[(M)]
• VARCHAR(M)
PostgreSQL 
• CHAR
• VARCHAR2
• char
• varchar
• Text type (short
*4
text )
*6
• CHAR[(M)]
*6
• VARCHAR(M)
*5
*5
• character[(n)]
• character
varying[(n)]
Date and time
• DATE • TIMESTAMP[(p)] WITH
• TIMESTAMP[(p)] TIME ZONE
• smalldatetime • datetimeoffset[(p)]
• datetime
• datetime2[(p)]
• Date/Time 

• DATETIME[(fsp)]
• TIMESTAMP[(fsp)]
• timestamp[(p)] [without 
time zone]
*2
*2