• sorry; I have hard time in understanding/realizing the missing piece here.

    - Replicate is replicating as needed (the expression is 5 chars and and @s-2 is also 5 so no changes in the @s-2 in the SET level0

    - as the @s-2 is set V5, so the datalength is 5 of the S as-well in the table

    can any one shed some light please?

    ww; Raghu
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    The first and the hardest SQL statement I have wrote- "select * from customers" - and I was happy and felt smart.