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Old April 25th, 2000, 08:54 PM
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is it a bad practice to define all my "string" fields to varchar(255) to cater for expension?

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cpy,

It is not a bad practise to define all your "string" fields to varchar(255).

some advantages are their using varchar.

the main advantage is
"Trailing spaces are removed when the value
is stored."

This will improve your database access performence.

see some sql book for details.




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