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RE: Dynamic Field Length...

Actually under 4.4 it is 2 bytes for a max length of 65535 bytes.  IBM keeps
stretching things.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Gord Royle [mailto:GRoyle@cott.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 1:25 PM
To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Dynamic Field Length...


If it works like DB2/UDB on the AIX platform (and I believe that it does),
your answer is probably 6051 bytes. I think VARCHAR uses 1 byte per record
to tell the system how much actual data there is in the maximum 4096 bytes
allowable for VARCHAR.

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