With DB2, use CHAR FOR BIT DATA to represent BINARY, VARCHAR(n) FOR BIT DATA to represent VARBINARY and LONG VARCHAR FOR BIT DATA to represent LONG VARBINARY. If you use the IBM ODBC driver, BINARY, VARBINARY and LONG VARBINARY are the data types returned instead of the IBM equivalent. The IMAGE data type can be represented by BLOB. DB2 uses LOBs (Character Large Object, Binary Large Object or Graphical Large Object to define very large columns (2 Gigabytes maximum). You can use static SQL with these data types.