> a) The basic contents of the internal data dictionary can be used to
> check incoming fields from on their length and permitted contents.
>
> b) With a little extra work, I should be able to define a table which
> can be used to check field contents against field masks.
You can use column check constraints with regular expressions
for that. No need for an extra table I would assume.
Karsten
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