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"Rudderow, Evan" <[log in to unmask]>
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Rudderow, Evan
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Tue, 5 Sep 1995 09:29:00 EDT
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Chris Breemer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
 
>Does anybody know if an Allbase TID can change as the result of an UPDATE ?
>This seems to be the case with Oracle rowid's, but in the Allbase manuals I
cannot
>find anything about it.
 
I would *guess* that the answer is yes -- suppose that you've got a table
with a VARCHAR column; if you update that column with a longer value then
there won't be room in the current position to write it back; hence it's
tuple ID should change.
 
Do you care to give it a try and let me know?
 
Regards.
 
 -- Evan

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