>>I build the content of a column from a UDF within an SQL construct. The max size for that column will be 154. But After some testing the width seems to become determined after the first result that came out of the UDF. So if the width is 8 then it's fixed for all the columns so I lose many information in some records.
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>>Is there a way to fix the size of a column whatever the size of what will go into it?
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SELECT PADR(myudf(...), 154) AS whatever, ...
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>* or in UDF
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>RETURN PADR(Returnvalue, 154)
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Thank you Sergey. But I feel a bit stupid because yesterday Borislav Borissov game me a solution in another thread. He included the PADR in his solution but I had to do some modifications to some code that he gave me and I kinda forgot about the PADR part.