Strings and Defaults

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Strings and Defaults

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Thomas Abraham SSChampion Points: 10761 More actions · Answer 1

Nice one Gail. Always good when a question has a twist that's straightforward. (I almost went for 1 and 1, until I remembered ...) Thanks!

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Britt Cluff SSCertifiable Points: 5083 More actions · Answer 2

Good question, thansk for submitting.

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Mattrick Ten Centuries Points: 1176 More actions · Answer 3

Good question, which illustrates the importance of defining the maximum data length.

Thanks,

Matt

Data_God SSCrazy Points: 2772 More actions · Answer 4

One has to wonder at what point will Microsoft add configuration switches (defaulted to force developers to use correct variable declarations) that would allow you to either work with backwards compatibility for things like this versus causing an error because you have not explicitly set the length of your varchar / nvarchar variables for new development projects. IMHO, continuing to allow syntax such as this just allows old habits to continue to live on without indicating that you have code that really needs to be addressed.

Daniel Bowlin SSC-Dedicated Points: 34566 More actions · Answer 5

You would have gotten me if one of the answers was

123456789012345678901234567890 and

123456789012345678901234567890

but without that I had to dig a bit deeper.

Good question, thanks.

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 6

You mean like option 4?

123456789012345678901234567890 and 123456789012345678901234567890

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Andre Guerreiro SSCertifiable Points: 7319 More actions · Answer 7

Loved the question and got it right because I had issues with some old code before.

Thank you for this straightforward question!

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Ken SSCoach Points: 17191 More actions · Answer 8

Nice question. And this is why we always declare lengths for variable data types.

Rich Mechaber SSChampion Points: 11130 More actions · Answer 9

I knew about VARCHAR defaulting to length of 1, but I learned today about the CASE/CAST 30 byte truncation.

So.

Anyone know why MS created two different default data lengths? It seems like redundant inconsistency....

Rich

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 10

Who knows. The cause of this is likely buried somewhere in the past.

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 11

KWymore (1/26/2012)
Nice question. And this is why we always declare lengths for variable data types.

Agreed

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EL Jerry SSCertifiable Points: 7061 More actions · Answer 12

I think I chose the right answer and still got it wrong. Is there a way I can confirm which answer I chose?

Thank you,

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Julie Hall of Fame Points: 3292 More actions · Answer 13

I was not aware of this. Definatly will keep this in mind for the future.

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tks for the question.

Cliff Jones SSChampion Points: 10547 More actions · Answer 15

I always declare the length so I wasn't sure what the defaults were but assumed that was what the question was about.

Good question.