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From Marc A. Leith
Subject Re: Field Size
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Msg-id 20031208130328.28EC730AE1C@appsrv1.nuvergence.com
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In response to Re: Field Size  ("Ganesan Kanavathy" <ganesh@magnusquest.com>)
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If you define the field as CHAR, 1000 bytes will be consumed.

If you define the field as VARCHAR, on sufficient bytes to store the contents will be used.

Marc

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From: Ganesan Kanavathy
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 20:56:06 +0800

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Can anyone tell me, what harm would setting a field size to 1000 characters do to the size?



By increasing the size, will the database require more space? Or does it only consume space if there is data in the field only?



Regards,

Ganesan





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