In the last episode (Jun 18), Tim Johnson said: > Is there an optimal 'alignment' for column widths for > varchar types? > > I.E., divisible by 8 or 10 or by powers of 2?
No. Varchar fields are stored using only as many bytes as are in that particular entry. The size in the column definition is simply the maximum allowed size. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/char.html -- Dan Nelson [email protected] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[email protected]
