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mfghazi
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 Posted - 2009-02-10 : 09:32:29
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| Hi,I have a table which has 20 columns for some code. Typically, only 5-10 codes are stored for each record.So my question is that when there is no data for a column in a record, will there be any space allocated for these empty fields?PS., the type of these codes are varchar(6). |
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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder
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Posted - 2009-02-10 : 09:48:21
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| when no data is stored, storage size of varchar will be 0 |
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Row size with blank data columns