VB Arrays and User-defined Datatypes

  • Is there any way to store in one field a VB Array or a variable of a User-Defined datatype?

  • Only if you control the data yourself. It's just like putting XML or a word doc in a blob - it's structured, but SQL doesn't know that. You could just write your array out to a string with some type of delimiter for storage, then parse back into an array when you retrieve it. Take a look at Split & Join functions in VB for an easy way to do this.

    It's a rare case when this is a good idea.

    Andy

    Andy

  • There is a high size cost with this method.

    I found that I can directly store an Array of Bytes in a Varbinary field. Then I can get the contents of the field in a variant and read the array fields as usual. It's more complicate in code but less size expensive

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