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Simple Declarations
A simple declaration defines a single name and describes its attributes. Its recommended form is:
DECLARE name a⊂1 a⊂2 a⊂n;
where name is the declared name and a1 through an are attributes. For example:
DECLARE A FIXED BINARY(15);
DECLARE B CHARACTER(10) VARYING STATIC INITIAL('ABC');
DECLARE C DIMENSION(5) FLOAT DECIMAL(7);
The last statement in this example could also be given without the keyword DIMENSION by using the following format:
DECLARE C(5) FLOAT DECIMAL(7);