Mike, Emmitt and Razzak,

Thank you for confirming.
What I thought but it never hurts to check.
Back to playing around with Extreme.

Jan
 


-----Original Message-----
From: "A. Razzak Memon" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List)
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:42:58 -0500
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: VARCHAR vs VARBIT


At 03:12 PM 11/15/2010, jan johansen wrote:

>If I think the client will use an image, it's better to create a
>column as a VARBIT vs a VARCHAR, right?

Jan,

VARBIT is the ideal data type for storing and managing images.

VARBIT (Varying Bit)
VARCHAR (Varying Character)

VARCHAR is the ideal type for storing text beyond 4092 characters
as well as storing and managing Rich Text Format (.rtf) data.

Very Best R:egards,

Razzak.

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