Additional variable field considerations
This topic describes additional considerations for variable-length fields.
For VARCHAR, VARGRAPHIC, and VARBINARY data types, a two-byte length precedes the data. For VARCHAR and VARBINARY, the length is the number of single-byte characters. For VARGRAPHIC, the length is the number of double-byte characters. The length does not include the two length bytes.
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