Subject Re: [firebird-support] Re: What are the trade-offs of CHAR vs. VARCHAR?
Author Dimitry Sibiryakov
13.11.2019 16:09, blackfalconsoftware@... [firebird-support] wrote:
> If a VARCHAR field is defined for 1000 characters and it is stored in the table at a 1000
> character length than there is no purpose to an actual VARCHAR field definition.

There is. I addition to 1000 characters two bytes of real length is stored. And believe
or not it is a huge advantage.


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WBR, SD.