At 23:10, 19990726, Paul DuBois wrote:
>At 1:58 AM -0500 7/27/99, David Stack wrote:
>>Lets say my max record length is 30 characters in size.
>>
>>Is there any disadvantage to using the varchar(255) column in the above
>>situation?
>
>None that I can see. About the only difference is that if you store
>a 31-character string into a VARCHAR(30) column, the last character will
>be chopped of. With VARCHAR(255), it won't be.
As I understand it, MySQL will allocate 255 bytes in memory to hold
the values in that column. So it will use slightly more memory when
performing queries if you use (255) instead of (30).
Tim
