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VarBinary Field
Range of Type
This type of field can effectively store binary values (i.e. values that contain zero-bytes inside) of variable size with limit up to 4088 bytes per value.
Storage
It is easy to see that VarBinary field is similar to VarChar Field by storage type. This field uses a logical file of page structure to be able effectively store strings of variable length. Read more...
Flags
- fNullable
This field can be declared as Nullable. In this case a special bitmap is associated with this field.
API
This field type is represented at the API level by VVarBinary Class.
SQL
At SQL Level you can create such field using
CREATE TABLE T1( fldVarBinary VARBINARY(1000) );
You can use this field in any predicate expression, e.g.
SELECT * FROM T1 WHERE fldVarBinary = 'abcdef';