Re: Why are data types size limited?
From: <joe_celko_at_my-deja.com>
Date: 2000/03/21
Message-ID: <8b83d2$c57$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1
Date: 2000/03/21
Message-ID: <8b83d2$c57$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1
>> This does not seem to explain to me why variable-length fields
(particularly strings) of unrestricted (or even relatively unrestricted)
size are not supported (or at least not well/transparently supported).
<<
The scale and precision are unrestricted in the Standards, or more properly, implementation defined. What your vendor did with the Standards for a particular piece of hardware is up to them.
--CELKO--
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