MySQL Types to Java Types for ResultSet.getObject()

MySQL Type Name	Return value ofGetColumnClassName	Returned as Java Class
BIT(1) (new in MySQL-5.0)	BIT	java.lang.Boolean
BIT( > 1) (new in MySQL-5.0)	BIT	byte[]
TINYINT	TINYINT	java.lang.Boolean if the configuration property tinyInt1isBit is set to true (the default) and the storage size is 1, orjava.lang.Integer if not.
BOOL, BOOLEAN	TINYINT	See TINYINT, above as these are aliases for TINYINT(1), currently.
SMALLINT[(M)] [UNSIGNED]	SMALLINT [UNSIGNED]	java.lang.Integer (regardless if UNSIGNED or not)
MEDIUMINT[(M)] [UNSIGNED]	MEDIUMINT [UNSIGNED]	java.lang.Integer, if UNSIGNED java.lang.Long (C/J 3.1 and earlier), or java.lang.Integer for C/J 5.0 and later
INT,INTEGER[(M)] [UNSIGNED]	INTEGER [UNSIGNED]	java.lang.Integer, if UNSIGNED java.lang.Long
BIGINT[(M)] [UNSIGNED]	BIGINT [UNSIGNED]	java.lang.Long, if UNSIGNED java.math.BigInteger
FLOAT[(M,D)]	FLOAT	java.lang.Float
DOUBLE[(M,B)]	DOUBLE	java.lang.Double
DECIMAL[(M[,D])]	DECIMAL	java.math.BigDecimal
DATE	DATE	java.sql.Date
DATETIME	DATETIME	java.sql.Timestamp
TIMESTAMP[(M)]	TIMESTAMP	java.sql.Timestamp
TIME	TIME	java.sql.Time
YEAR[(2|4)]	YEAR	If yearIsDateType configuration property is set to false, then the returned object type is java.sql.Short. If set to true (the default), then the returned object is of type java.sql.Date with the date set to January 1st, at midnight.
CHAR(M)	CHAR	java.lang.String (unless the character set for the column is BINARY, then byte[] is returned.
VARCHAR(M) [BINARY]	VARCHAR	java.lang.String (unless the character set for the column is BINARY, then byte[] is returned.
BINARY(M)	BINARY	byte[]
VARBINARY(M)	VARBINARY	byte[]
TINYBLOB	TINYBLOB	byte[]
TINYTEXT	VARCHAR	java.lang.String
BLOB	BLOB	byte[]
TEXT	VARCHAR	java.lang.String
MEDIUMBLOB	MEDIUMBLOB	byte[]
MEDIUMTEXT	VARCHAR	java.lang.String
LONGBLOB	LONGBLOB	byte[]
LONGTEXT	VARCHAR	java.lang.String
ENUM('value1','value2',...)	CHAR	java.lang.String
SET('value1','value2',...)	CHAR	java.lang.String