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Why is datalength of decimal 5 regardless of precision?

I'm trying to better understand numeric types in SQL and have read that the decimal type will always require 17 bytes. … create table tbl_TestDec(dec1 decimal(19,4), dec2 decimal(20,4), dec3 decimal(9,4)) insert into tbl_TestDec select 1, 1, 1 select datalength(dec1), datalength(dec2), datalength(dec3) from tbl_TestDec …
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