15.10 - VARBYTE Data Type - Teradata Database

Represents a variable-length binary string.

where:

Syntax element …	Specifies …
n	the number of bytes in the string. The maximum value for n is 64000.
attributes	appropriate data type, column storage, or column constraint attributes. See “Core Data Type Attributes” on page 17 and “Storage and Constraint Attributes” on page 18 for specific information.

VARBYTE is a Teradata extension to the ANSI SQL:2011 standard.

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.
UTS RISC Motorola 68000 WE 32000 Intel	k + 2 bytes 16-bit SMALLINT (2 byte) length count k followed by k bytes of BYTE data.

In the following example, the column named BinaryData is assigned the VARBYTE data type and has an upper limit of 1200 bytes:

   CREATE TABLE DocTable

     (DocType INTEGER

     ,DocName CHAR(26)

     ,BinaryData VARBYTE(1200));