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  3. April 2010

RE: Create Table mixing referenced and explicit column definitions creating undesirable results

It's been a long day so I'm hoping someone can help me figure out what
I'm doing wrong:

create table library/newfile as
(select field1, field2, char(35) as newfield, field3 from oldfile)
definition only

for some reason, this creates newfield with a length of 11 instead of
35.

Is there really a comma between field2 and char(35)? I'm surprised you get
by with that, but if you do, then that's almost certainly the issue.

Dennis Lovelady
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dennislovelady
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Patience - a minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.
-- Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary




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