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Definition

Can store characters, numbers, and special characters just like a CHAR column and can support strings up to 8000 bytes in size. A variable-length column only takes up the space it needs to store a string of characters, with no spaces added to pad out the column.

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Relation Count
Value Domains implementing this Data Type 123
Distributions implementing this as Physical Data Type 0