DataType
AX – Primitive and composite
primitive:
1) int [32]
2) int 64 – long int [ credit card numbers, debit card numbers]
3) real – decimal points example : 12346.00 [12 digits]
4) str – sequence of characters [ lengTH – 10]
5) Base Enums: enumerations [ fixed set of constants/literals]
– constant – will never change
example : week [ sunday 0, m1, t 2, we 3, thu 4, fri 5, sat 6]
Year [j……..d]
gender [ m, f, uk]
enum value starts with 0
Largest value it can hold is 250
6) Date – in order to hold any date values [mm/dd/yyyy], dd/mm/yyyy 20-Aug-2010
7) Time – integer
8) DateTime – 12/23/2011 2:00:05 PM
9) 5.0 version of AX – utcDateTime – Universal time control data time
example: if you do the transaction @ 6 PM IST – the transactions transaction can be see @ 8:30 AM EST in US.
10) GUID – Global unique identifier – 24 digit hexa decimal number which system will generate automatically
example : 23hgdh-12321h-12nb23-haifa9
Composite data types:
1) Arrays – collection of similar datatypes:
1) Index starts with 1
EXAMPLE :
str names[11]; //static array
// dynamic array str names[]
names[1] = “Kabir”;
names[2] = “Khan”;
;
;
;
names[8] = “Alfasith”;
2) Containers :
Large objects[BLOB] – Images, files, pdfs, vidoes etc
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