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A value area contains data for each tuple field one after another as described above. Potentially a field can contain any kind of data.  However there are rules how to represent values of specific types as binary tuple fieldsfor representation of common data type values there. These rules are specified in the following section. Data types for which there are no specified rules still may be put into a tuple as a Binary field, but the interpretation in this case such cases is fully up to a particular application.

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