On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Al Musella, DPM wrote: > I didn't know that. So would it be safer to use all nchar fields > in the database instead of char, then no matter what the paramater > came in as, it is faster to convert the parameter to unicode once > than to convert every value in the index?
That is the safe choice that will make your database a bit slower, but without any corner cases where your databases suddenly becomes several orders of magnitude slower. http://jochem.vandieten.net/2008/12/15/querying-ms-sql-server-guuids-from-coldfusion/ Jochem -- Jochem van Dieten http://jochem.vandieten.net/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:319351 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4