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Subj:   Re: Unicode surprise
 
From:   DWellman

David,

Are your character columns CHAR or VARCHAR ? As with all CHAR columns, even if you only store a value of 'abc', if the column is defined as CHAR(10) then it will occupy 10 bytes (LATIN) or 20 bytes (UNICODE).

Does that explain it ?


Cheers,

Dave

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