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LENGTH column in TABLE_COLUMNS table specifies precision or byte length or any other thing

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SAP HANA has one Table TABLE_COLUMNS and it has one column LENGTH. Is it for precision or byte length?

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michael_eaton3
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From the documentation - https://help.sap.com/viewer/4fe29514fd584807ac9f2a04f6754767/2.0.03/en-US/2100d33a75191014868bbcd892...

The number of chars for CHAR types, number of max digits for numeric types, number of chars for datetime types, and number of bytes for LOB types

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Michael Thanks for your response. I checked that documentation and it's not clear from description so i asked this question.

abdel_dadouche
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Hi dummy

I highly recommend you to use the "Feedback" section on the right in the documentation panel to raise your concern about the documentation.

Can you clarify what is not clear in the description?

@bdel

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@Abdel Thanks for suggestion, it's not clear from documentation that if it's precision or byte length?