From: Dan Nelson
Date: July 13 2003 7:41pm
Subject: Re: Storage efficiency of VARCHARs
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In the last episode (Jul 13), Dan Anderson said:
> I am curious about the internal representation of VARCHARS.  I cannot
> find any documentation on it in the mySQL manual. Will a VARCHAR(10)
> take up less space then a VARCHAR(80), even though they are variable?

It's documented at least twice in the manual.  See the section "The
CHAR and VARCHAR Types": http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/CHAR.html , and
also "Column Type Storage Requirements":
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Storage_requirements.html

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	Dan Nelson
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