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 Posted - 2001-10-24 : 09:21:00
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| Cliff writes "Is there any criteria to use to determine when to use a varchar, vs. a char data type, a reasonable cutoff, like say, any column over 10 bytes should be varchar? Supposedly there IS a reasonable point where the savings of storage and transfering of dead space offets the overhead of varchar. Got any ideas? We are building a web-based application that will be storing and retrieving data from a SQL Server db, and we want to minimize the data stream to the browser." |
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varchar vs. char - when to use which?