Re: Increasing SQLSIZE variable

[Don Mellen <donm@ONTKO.COM>]

On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Jeff Hassfurther wrote:

> I have a report that will not compile with a default SQLSIZE of 4000
> characters.  I can use the -M command line option
> to get it to compile and it works correctly.  I read in the SQR manuals
> that you can increase the size of the default
> SQLSIZE in the sqr.ini file to a maximum of 64K.  The manual states that if
> I increase this value, "there is a direct
> impact on the memory requirements".  That is the only detail it gives.
> Does this mean more memory at compile
> time or at run time?

I'm not sure about compile time, but definately run-time.

> What is the "direct impact" in term of memory used
> per 1 or 100 or 1000 characters?

1 byte per character (unless your using the double-byte japanese version,
in which case it's 2 bytes?)

HTH,
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