def convertType(self, dbType, dataType):
        typeCode = STRING
        if dataType in NUMBER_TYPES:
            typeCode = NUMBER
            if self.useFloat and dataType in FLOAT_TYPES:
                typeCode = float
        elif dataType in BINARY_TYPES:
            typeCode = BINARY
        elif dataType.startswith("DATE"):
            typeCode = Date
        elif dataType.startswith("TIMESTAMP"):
            typeCode = Timestamp
        elif dataType.startswith("TIME"):
            typeCode = Time
        return typeCode
Sort in ascending order; sorting criteria is the current attribute
dataset/ETHPy150Open Teradata/PyTd/teradata/datatypes.py/DefaultDataTypeConverter.convertType--crossover with--dataset/ETHPy150Open ipython/ipython-py3k/IPython/deathrow/igrid.py/IGridGrid.sortattrasc