Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:

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>I don't object to the string datatype but we have NUMERIC(x,y) (oh, our
>numeric don't work well :-)), then [VAR]CHAR(x) has it value.
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I really haven't thought through the numeric issues (hard to think about
scale factors when there's a seal swimming by the window).

>How ISQL (and similar tools) will display strings in tabular format?
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The same way that html and the MsgMgr output window handle them -- cache
the data and compute the longest actual string. Makes more a *much*
more readable report.