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What's this...varchar2 as fast as char?

From: Sean Emery <sean.c.emery_at_bell-atl.com>
Date: 1997/02/06
Message-ID: <32FA0D54.7504@bell-atl.com>#1/1 







Hello,



Excuse me for bringing up a probably hashed and re-hashed argument, but
two oracle consultants informed us that we should probably never use a
char field because varchar2 fields are just as fast inside an Oracle DB
and you never have to rtrim() them.



This is quite contrary to what I have believed for a long time now.



Does this sound accurate to you?  Should I listen to these characters? 
They are _supposedly_ the experts afterall.



Thank you,


Sean
Received on Thu Feb 06 1997 - 00:00:00 CST












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