Re: Varchar2....is this Dilbert or what?????

Your boss is insane. Buy him a hat to
cover the pointy hair.

Jared

On Tue, 9 May 2000, Christine Turner wrote:

> Ok, forgive me if I offend anyone....but the head honchos came and asked
> what the ramifications would be if we were to make every, yes EVERY
> varchar2 column in new database the length of 255. The reasoning behind
> this is...."to keep maintenace down in the future, so we don't have to
> change the database every time when need a column resized". I'm fairly new
> to being a database administrator (going on a year), but I have been
> working in Oracle for about 6 years and quite frankly this sounds totally
> obsurd! Anyone have any comments??? Pro's, Con's????
>
> Thanks In Advance,
> Christine Turner
> FTP Database Administrator
> IPS Sendero
> Phone: (800) 321-6899 ext. 3286
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>
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Jared Still
Certified Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist ;) jkstill_at_teleport.com
jkstill_at_bcbso.com Received on Tue May 09 2000 - 17:48:08 CDT