The name of the storage area that will hold all segmented strings. For a single file database or multifile database, if you do not explicitly define a storage area for segmented strings, segmented strings will be stored in the default storage area, RDB$SYSTEM. If your database is a single-file database and you specify a storage area other than RDB$SYSTEM, you receive an error message because RDB$SYSTEM is the only storage area in a single-file database. The page format for the segmented string storage area can be UNIFORM or MIXED. However, Rdb recommends that if you store segmented strings in a MIXED storage area, that area contain only segmented strings.