I was just asking the question to the List because I agree with Tim, but might have missed somewhat.
To quote our local AWE: Please prove I'm wrong.....
Many time I was, and am, but I'm glad this time I wasn't. (Except from the fact that to some perspective variable length characters sets might be slightly slower than fixed length character sets)
Alas I wasn't allowed to touch the system to find this out earlier, but... the system is fast now. (with the 'wrong' character set)
At 10:29 26-11-03 -0800, you wrote:
Pure bvllsh1t.
Slap a sql trace on the process and find out what's actually going on. Stop the madness before some damager makes a stupid decision...
In the end, they might be right. But isn't it better to be certain?
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