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Actually under 4.4 it is 2 bytes for a max length of 65535 bytes. IBM keeps stretching things. Christopher K. Bipes mailto:ChrisB@Cross-Check.com Operations & Network Mgr mailto:Chris_Bipes@Yahoo.com CrossCheck, Inc. http://www.cross-check.com 6119 State Farm Drive Phone: 707 586-0551 x 1102 Rohnert Park CA 94928 Fax: 707 586-1884 -----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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