>> it' may seem like a small amount of space but when you have 8 >> char(255) columns in a table with 10 million rows you'd noticed the >> difference considerably. It is a small amount of space. Perhaps it was necessary in the days when 1Gb Hdds were a luxury, but those days are long gone. In the example you gave you're still only wasting approx 1 GB. Hardly a lot these days when you consider you buy a consumer 500Gb Hdd for £50. -- 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
