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

From: Gilles PARC <gparc_at_online.fr>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 18:32:36 +0200
Message-Id: <10495.105573@fatcity.com> 





Hi Waleed,



At 13:36 11/05/2000 -0800, you wrote:


>I don't see anything wrong in his idea. I think he

>means by 255 to make sure that he will not waste a lot

>of disk space in the length columns since it is one

>byte for varchar2(1-255) and three bytes for longer

>columns.

>

>He is a practical guy!

>




Except that it's one byte until varchar2(250) and three bytes above ...



Regards



Gilles Parc


Email : gparc_at_mail.dotcom.fr
Received on Fri May 12 2000 - 11:32:36 CDT












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