Paul wrote:
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> DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote:
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>
>>ALTER TABLE employees
>>ADD (contractor_flag VARCHAR2(1));
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> And why not CHAR(1)? I thought there was a (minimal) overhead with
> VARCHAR2(x), so what's the point in imposing it for a field that you
> know will always be one and only one character?
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>
> Paul...
Zero advantage to using CHAR so why deal with it at all?
--
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)
Received on Sun Apr 17 2005 - 14:38:02 CDT
