2014-11-06 21:49 GMT+01:00, Roberta Jaskólski :
> Ugh--I missed the discussion shift from the DATEs to the VARCHAR labels ...
> and now I wholeheartedly agree with you.
>
> As for the DATEs, I yet suspect that for performance maybe TIMESTAMP is
> slightly better than DATE.
Well what I'm interest
2014/11/04 11:04 -0800, Jan Steinman
I was not suggesting it for dates. The OP appeared to have a well-defined set
of strings in a VARCHAR field  THAT is what I suggested ENUMs for!
What is the update frequency of those VARCHARs? If you're adding them often Â
or if you need to