On 3/27/07, Robert L Cochran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Joel, It's been a while since I've had to code DB2 and my memory might be faulty. But the SQL standard says char(n) has to be padded with trailing spaces, right? See this http://troels.arvin.dk/db/rdbms/ under the heading "The CHAR type". Thanks Bob Cochran
Hi Bob, There was never a question about WHY the blanks were there, just how they were treated in SELECT statement matching. And (not that this has anything to do with anything), on DB2 for AS/400, SQL is not typically used to create schema (or at least not has been in the past), but rather the AS/400 proprietary commands and DDS file structure. But character fields on the 400 are padded with trailing blanks, regardless of how they are created. Here is the difference: In the database, pretend I have a field called NAMEFIELD, defined as CHAR(15). In the database, it's value is 'MIKE ' SELECT * FROM MYFILE WHERE NAMEFIELD = 'MIKE' will return this row. That is NOT true for SQLite, which would require the full 15 characters, blanks and all, to return the row. That is all my original message was asking about. Thanks, -- Joel Cochran
