External Representation of VARBYTE
The following table lists the client representations for the Teradata SQL VARBYTE data type.
Define the length of the VARBYTE string as k, where 0 ≤ k ≤ n.
| Client CPU Architecture | Client Internal Data Format |
|---|---|
| IBM mainframe | k + 2 bytes 16-bit SMALLINT (2 byte) length count k followed by k bytes of BYTE data. |
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k + 2 bytes 16-bit SMALLINT (2 byte) length count k followed by k bytes of BYTE data. |