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QUESTION POSED ON: 11 December 2008
Why does the length function used in a WHERE or ORDER BY clause remove the trailing blanks from a VARCHAR column but does not remove them in a SELECT column?

Is this a bug?

No, this is done by design to provide the DB2 query optimizer more flexibility when picking the fastest implementation for your SQL query request. If you want to disable this query optimizer technique, you can create a QAQQINI options file and set the VARIABLE_LENGTH_OPTIMIZATION attribute to *NO.

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