RE: Dynamic Field Length...

[Gord Royle <GRoyle@xxxxxxxx>]

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.

Gord Royle
Cott Corporation

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil [mailto:sublime78ska@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 3:52 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Dynamic Field Length...


Tim,

>
> (50*100)+1000 = 6000 bytes
>
> or would it be 1024 * 101 = 103424 bytes
>
> I know there is additional overhead, but for the sake of the
> conversation...
> it would only use 6000 bytes of storage...
>

That's the idea although there are probably a lot of factors which affect
just how much storage is saved.  I don't know much about that but am
curious.

Maybe someone else who knows about this can comment?

Phil


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