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Data type length enforcement

elgeo
Valued Contributor II

Hello. Is there a way to enforce the length of a column in SQL? For example that a column has to be exactly 18 characters? Thank you!

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elgeo
Valued Contributor II

Hi @Kaniz Fatma​. Thank you for your feedback. However, my question is if we can enforce a column to have exactly a number of characters, not less than a number. For example an iban needs to have exactly 34 chars, not less than 34 not more than 34.

elgeo
Valued Contributor II

Thank you @Kaniz Fatma​. This is exactly what I was looking for.

databricks31
New Contributor II

we are facing similar issues while write into adls location delta format, after that we created on top delta location unity catalog tables. below format of data type length should be possible to change spark sql supported ?

Azure SQL Spark             SQL supported ?
column1 nvarchar(5)   -->  column1 <how to set custome datatype length>
startdate datetime2 ----> startdate <how to set custome datatype length>
enddate datetime2(0) ---> enddate <how to set custome datatype length>

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