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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> Varchar2....is this Dilbert or what?????
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
Fax: (480) 946-8224
E-mail: christine.turner_at_ips-sendero.com
Received on Tue May 09 2000 - 08:19:32 CDT
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