data field

A location storing data having a specific type. A data field typically contains data from a database or other data source. A data field appears as a column when viewing a table in Data Explorer. For example, the BIRT Data Analytics Demo database includes the data field types listed in Table G‑1.

Table G‑1 Data field types
Icon	Field type	Description
	Calculated	Displays a value result from an expression
	Date	Contains numbers that represent day, month, and year
	Date and time	Contains numbers that represent day, month, year, and time of day
	Full numeric	Contains whole, or integer numbers, such as 1 or 1000
	Real numeric	Contains real, or partial numbers such as 1.05 or 0.003
	Time	Contains a value representing time of day
	Text	Contains a string of alphabetic characters