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Message Posted: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 @ 18:08:30 GMT

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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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