Re: Dynamic Field Length...

["Dennis Lovelady" <dlovelady@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Tim:

Well, there is a VARLEN() parameter that was added in DDS specs ions ago.
But the length is not totally arbitrary.  How many characters do you need
to store, and will this variable work for you?

HTH
Dennis





"Hatzenbeler, Tim" <thatzenbeler@clinitech.net>@midrange.com on 10/18/2001
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Does our database have a memo type of field?

ie: in Sequel, they can input text with variable lengths...  With DDS, we
have to setup our database with a fixed number or characters...

Either via SQL, or DDS (or both) is it possible to setup a field (ie:
comment field) to accept an unlimited number of characters...  This would
be
a non keyed field...