>>> On 5/13/2008 at 5:24 PM, in message
<7qpWj.134289$Er2.127202@bignews6.bellsouth.net> , Mark
A<nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> "Frank Swarbrick" <Frank.Swarbrick@efirstbank.com> wrote in message
> news:48297F5F.6F0F.0085.0@efirstbank.com...
>> My DBA says that a column defined, for instance, as DECIMAL(11,2) and
>> containing a value of 1.00 takes up no more space on the database disk
>> than
>> a column defined as DECIMAL(7,2) and containing a value of 1.00.
>>
>> I am honestly having a hard time believing this, but I don't know where
> I
>> can find the answer.
>> Help?
>
> That is true with some databases, but not with DB2 unless you are
> specifically using compression.

Do you by chance know if Oracle is one of the "some databases"? The DBA is
an Oracle guy who we also have working on DB2 now.

Thanks,
Frank