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 are char & text fields PADDED?

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inteliNeo
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Posted - 2001-05-17 : 09:41:05
i have about 200000 records in a table and fields are

id int(4) identity
text1 text(16)
text2 text(16)

now the problem is text1 does not allow null value so people have to enter something for it but not fot text2. as a result i have thausands of empty text2 fields left on the database. is text field padded? is it wasting my database space? should i replace text2 field with isText2 bit and create a new table for text2 to save db space?
   

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