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 Posted - 2003-01-30 : 08:17:14
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| John writes "I'm told that using large varchar fields is a bad idea because during the handling of the data between the database and my program it will get padded to full size by ODBC, making the network use inefficient. This seems unlikely to me. Is it true?On the other hand, if no padding occurs anywhere, why bother to make any varchar field less than the maximum size?" |
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varchar padding in ODBC