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

From: Waleed Khedr <waleed_khedr_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 13:19:51 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <10494.105422@fatcity.com>


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!

Regards

Waleed



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