Jim Starkey wrote:

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> The density is nice, but the thing that excites me most about the
> encoding as an ODS structure is that it utterly eliminates any
> dependency on physical field length. I'm toying with the idea of
> replacing "varchar (<size>)" with a just "string" in Netfrastructure.
> Fixed field lengths made perfectly good sense for punch cards, but I
> think we're past that now.
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The same goes for integers. Why define if an integer should
be SMALLINT, INTEGER or BIGINT?

Steen