Your mail suggests that you *are* seeing a difference, though. What are you seeing?
On 11/11/09, Martijn Tonies <m.ton...@upscene.com> wrote: >>You have stumbled across the secret. No, there is no difference at >>all as the calculations suggested here confirm. >> >>http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/storage-requirements.html > > Note: as you can see in the above, CHAR data DOES take up room for it's > full size, stupidly enough. > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Waynn Lue <waynn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> I was building a table for storing email addresses today and ran into an >> issue that I couldn't find an answer for using Google. If I declare the >> column as a VARCHAR (this is an InnoDB table), does it matter what size I >> declare it as if it's between 1 and 255? I know there's an extra byte of >> storage once it goes above 255 because of the length, but is there a >> storage >> difference between VARCHAR(100) and VARCHAR(255)? Obviously there's a >> functional difference in what gets cut off when I try to store into that >> table, but is that the only difference? > > With regards, > > Martijn Tonies > Upscene Productions > http://www.upscene.com > > Download Database Workbench for Oracle, MS SQL Server, Sybase SQL > Anywhere, MySQL, InterBase, NexusDB and Firebird! > > Database questions? Check the forum: > http://www.databasedevelopmentforum.com > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=vegiv...@tuxera.be > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
