>What are the benefits on using a CHAR field versus VARCHAR? > Well, using char can be a bit speedier when querying, but takes up more disk space. You want to use char when all the data in that field will be close to the same length. the db will pad it, so it ends up taking up more space than if you used varchar and it set the length to the exact length of the data.
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