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From: deac@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Deac Lancaster)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: variable length records in Oracle
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Date: 2 Feb 90 05:44:14 GMT
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David,

Thanks for your explanation of your original response.  :-)).

My question is what happens if a variable length record is updated
to increase the length of data in a field?  Whether variable length records 
are implemented by either white space compression or and extra byte 
specifying the length of the field,  there is no extra space on the
disk image to accomodate increasing the data in the field.

So if "Don" is changed to "Donn", what happens to the disk file?

Thanks,
Deac