Re: Knowing the real size of a column

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Jan 09), Director General: NEFACOMP said:
> I have tried it but it failed to give me that size. It only works
> when the content is a CHAR or VARCHAR. It just returns the number of
> characters, not the disk size.

Isn't that the same thing?  LENGTH() would really be better, since then
you don't have to divide by 8.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@stripped