Re: Because you guys/gals/girls/women/insert pc term here are a smart lot
| From: | Richard Heyes | Date: | Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:49:38 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Because you guys/gals/girls/women/insert pc term here are a smart lot | ||
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>> it' may seem like a small amount of space but when you have 8
>> char(255) columns in a table with 10 million rows you'd noticed the
>> difference considerably.
It is a small amount of space. Perhaps it was necessary in the days
when 1Gb Hdds were a luxury, but those days are long gone. In the
example you gave you're still only wasting approx 1 GB. Hardly a lot
these days when you consider you buy a consumer 500Gb Hdd for £50.
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