desmond
one of my teachers at college once told me to give as less a digit as
possible
that is give it jst a BIT more den i need coz it takes up space .....
:S ...
will someone correct me if im rong here ..... pleez
toby ....
>Hello there
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>
>Mysql documentation says the following:
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>"values are stored using only as many characters as are needed, plus one
>byte to record the length. Values are not padded; instead, trailing spaces
>are removed when values are stored."
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>So, then would there be anything wrong with making all my varchar's up to
>255. That is defining most of my fields to be varchar(255) even when i know
>they may only go 100?
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>Thanks
>
>Desmond
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