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What is the difference between variable length & fixed block datasets?

  
Total Answers and Comments: 1 Last Update: October 09, 2007     Asked by: Niranjana 
  
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In fixed length record, the record length is sum of all the record (length).
In variable length record, the record size is maximum record length + 4bytes.

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October 09, 2007 06:09:07   #1  
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RE: What is the difference between variable length & f...
In fixed length record the record length is sum of all the record (length).
In variable length record the record size is maximum record length + 4bytes.

 
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