Re: Character Field Length Function for Binary Data

On 10 May 98 at 14:51, David Samson wrote: > Billy wrote to me to ask what this "0xa73123" syntax is. I guess > this is from a previous, other database life. What I meant by that > was a field with a value of "a73123" (hex). How can I get an SQL > function to return "3" as the length of this field (i.e. 3 bytes > worth of real data)? Is this a packed decimal or something? -- Ciao, Billy /Group Managing Director, The West Solutions Group: http://www.west.co.za \\ Drivel @ http://www.west.co.za/tasteless/ / \\ "Granted, Mr Wheeler's ideas are stupid and unreasonable, but he does own the company and I / think we should go along with him..." \\________________________________________________________________________________________________