> ... It may be worth mentioning that, IIRC, CHAR is faster due to the fixed length. If you can make your table use a fixed length row size (ie no variable length columns), it'll be faster. Also I could be missing something, but I can't see the advantage in VARCHAR since space is not really a concern these days. -- Richard Heyes HTML5 Graphing for FF, Chrome, Opera and Safari: http://www.rgraph.org (Updated January 4th) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php