Ann,

"Ann W. Harrison" schrieb:

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> >Suppose the country code varchar(2), is it good, bad, or neutral?
>
> Bad. Don't use varchar for character strings less that four characters
> long or for fixed length character strings.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ann

why is it bad to use varchar for character strings less than four
characters? Only because of the 2 extra bytes holding the string length
or are there other things?



Cheers,

Robert