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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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From: Waleed Khedr <waleed_khedr_at_yahoo.com>
Subject: RE: Varchar2....is this Dilbert or what?????
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This is the third time I try to post a message, so I decided to send from another email.
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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