Re: table create vs alter

On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, RROGERS_at_galottery.org wrote:

> If you had a large number of columns that would fill a block
> and the added a column, would the row be chained or migrated?

On creating the column, no extra space should be added, but then when the column gets updated, rows could start getting migrated or chained.

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