At 03:59 PM 17/01/2004 +0200, you wrote:

>So what do you suggest Helen I use to make best use of space if I would
>want to create a log file of all actions in a system happening and the
>values that were changed where the larges value is +- 100 bytes big ,
>VARCHAR(100) filed. but most values changed will be in the range of 20 to
>30 bytes ?

I don't understand the question. Are you saying you are going to duplicate
the values of all your changes into a log file? If so, I'll defer to
Thomas Steinmaurer on this one.

/hb