by --CELKO-- <jcelko212@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Jun 20, 2008 at 09:26 PM
>> For instance, the concern about someone adding a code_value that is a
lot of whitespace terminated by a single space. Unless you are using a
CHAR(1) field [sic: column] this is always a possibility. <<
"build it and they will come" One of the evil things I do is load the
Heart Sutra into huge NVARCHAR() columns when I stress a design. If
they will not learn RDBMS, they will have a chance for
Enlightenment :)
>> I'm not sure what the maximum length of the field [sic] has to do with
how likely the occurrence would be. Maybev you have some sort of
statistics on this? <<
Since I just started a book on industry standards, most are fixed
length strings under 25 characters -- boy, is that a generalization!
