Re: SYSCOLUMNS & SYSCOLUMN2

I'm fully aware that dates are stored as 4 bytes Birgitta - I think I was the person who pointed that out to you many years ago <grin>

However it misses the point. Even if you can't control the default format from SQL (I had missed that omission - just assumed it was there and I'd never used it) a date is still presented to you as a 10 character field in your program and it is that length that I need to know.

It just seems unfortunate that the "modern" way to identify the characteristics of a table can't be used for all purposes and you have to resort to older techniques like DSPFFD.

On Nov 26, 2019, at 12:03 AM, Birgitta Hauser <Hauser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

SQL does not support date formats, the date is stored as integer value
(scaliger no) so the reported length is 4.
AFAIK there is no service or view that considers the "date format".

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards

Birgitta Hauser

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Subject: SYSCOLUMNS & SYSCOLUMN2

I'm playing around with these tables relating to some utility software.

I notice that if you have a date in a table that the reported length is 4 -
which while technically accurate is fundamentally useless as a program can
never see it as that length. The output from DSPFFD on the other hand shows
the length as 8 or 10 based on the date format.

Am I missing something? Is there another table or a column in either
SYSCOLUMNS or SYSCOLUMN2 that does accurately represent the size of the
column or do I have to calculate it?


Jon Paris
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