Subject Re: [firebird-support] Re: usable characters for varchar and memos
Author Ann W. Harrison
Ed Dressel wrote:
>
> What is the cost/loss of moving from NONE to Octets?
>
> Note that some databases may not have their data encrypted, others
> will. So will an un-encrypted database have the ability to sort?
>

Both sorting and range retrievals will be problematic with encrypted
data. That could lead to semantic differences in the application,
depending on how data is stored.


Good luck,


Ann