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"What do the commonly used database access tools do with updating VARLEN fields? Been following this closely, as I've recently been incorporating varying fields without always knowing what I'm doing. On the topic of trimming when loading a DDS-described VARLEN field, and how that data is presented in some popular database access tools for i, I observed something peculiar and possibly troublesome. The use of a database access tool to modify field values may cause a previously-correctly loaded varying field to..."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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