Re: varchar to char ...

2002-06-14 Thread Bhavin Vyas
TED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 3:55 PM Subject: RE: varchar to char ... > What do you mean by optimization of the column? Are you saying that > char takes less space than varchar or the performance on char is better > in queries

RE: varchar to char ...

2002-06-14 Thread vivek . chaudhary
ata of the source tables and the columns. So I don't understand why should/would it change the data types of columns. thanks Vivek > -Original Message- > From: bvyas3 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 6:36 PM > To: CHAUDHARY, Vivek; mysql > Cc:

Re: varchar to char ...

2002-06-14 Thread Bhavin Vyas
Mysql optimizes the column type while creating the table. Regards, Bhavn. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 2:26 PM Subject: varchar to char ... > Hi guys, > > I have a query.I am not sure if this is a bug or a feature (ha

Re: varchar to char in table with several varchar's

2001-12-12 Thread Paul DuBois
At 9:32 AM +0100 12/12/01, Willem Bison wrote: >I have a table with several columns of type 'varchar'. How can I change all >columns to fixed width char's ? Doing a 'alter' from varchar to char has no >effect since the column is changed back to varchar. You have to change them all at ones in the