We have a somewhat large read-only table (2.9 million recs). I am wonder if there is a utility that will look at each row of each columns and come up with a summary of the largest field (in character length) for each column. For example, scan each row's firstname field and report that the longest first name is 12 characters. That way I can ALTER the firstname field to be a char or varchar of 12? What would be better BTW?
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