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Re: AW: Another Question about variable length fields

Ah - this explains the optimization I'm seeing with a short VARCHAR - thanks. This makes sense from what I remember when digging into this - the amount of space to accommodate short VARCHARs would be better used for the actual data.

Vern

Birgitta Hauser wrote:
Hi,
-snip-
Internally, DB2 UDB for iSeries will automatically set the Allocate value to
the maximum length of the variable length column whenever the column length
is 30 bytes or less.
-snip-

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