Re: Another Question about variable length fields

["James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My own understanding is that the "allocated length" is part of the 
record itself, while whatever is beyond it is stored in a heap that is 
also part of the member.

And storing data in a heap does have some overhead. As does storing the 
length itself.

Of course, there's also the extreme case of CLOB and BLOB fields, which 
are so alien to RLA that even in MI, they're only accessible through 
SQL, and you're doing well if you can even open the file through RLA.

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JHHL