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Kevin Dcosta
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| can the length part of a varchar field be set as zero ? |
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Craq Giegerich
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Kevin Dcosta
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| i have verified thanks for your quick reply. |
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Craq Giegerich
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| Your welcome, I'm glad I passed the test. |
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Anuj Dhawan
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Krishna Velamur
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Hi Kevin,
I have a question. Did you set the length as zero while inserting or while selecting? |
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dbzTHEdinosauer
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With a select, it does not matter what value with which the length field has been populated. Db2 will populate the length upon a successful select.
you can set the value to zero for both inserts and updates. |
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Krishna Velamur
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Hi Dick,
We can set the length value to zero while inserting as well as selecting. But as you said it doesn't matter while we are selecting because the length value will be populated. But while inserting, if we give the value as zero, the value in the text field will not be inserted. So i guess it will be better avoiding setting length to zero.
Corrections are welcome. |
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dbzTHEdinosauer
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So i guess it will be better avoiding setting length to zero.
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not sure what you are trying to say.
depends on what you want in the char portion............
If you do not want anything and it is not a nullable field, a length of zero could be interpreted as no data as apposed to spaces. |
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