A collateral contract is one where the parties to one contract enter into or promise to enter into another contract. Thus, the two contracts are connected and it maybe enforced even though it forms no constructive part of the original contract.or example, a collateral contract is formed when one party pays the other party a certain sum for entry into another contract. A collateral contract may be between one of the parties and a third party.
Using Large-Value Data Types. The max specifier expands the storage capabilities of the varchar, nvarchar, and varbinary data types. varchar(max), nvarchar(max), and varbinary(max) are collectively called large-value data types. You can use the large-value data types to store up to 2^31-1 bytes of data.
VARCHAR() FOR BIT DATA. A varying-length binary string containing character data. The maximum length of the string depends on the DB2 platform and version. This data type is converted to a DBTYPE_BYTES for use by OLE DB.