"Martin J. Dürst" scripsit: > The main reason for an entry being too long is that it has to fit > into a fixed-length field in a database. Ironically, most database systems store all fields as variable-length internally, and only impose the fixed-length limit for backward compatibility with older database systems, in terms of which SQL was defined. We could all throw away all fixed-length fields tomorrow, and nobody would be one bit worse off. -- Henry S. Thompson said, / "Syntactic, structural, John Cowan Value constraints we / Express on the fly." cowan@ccil.org Simon St. Laurent: "Your / Incomprehensible http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Abracadabralike / schemas must die!"Received on Tuesday, 21 June 2011 04:28:10 UTC
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