>Borislav,
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>I personaly, prefer to use varchar(xx) for all string expressions that have a big differences in the length. That keeps DB smaller.
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>I see. What about corrupted tables? So, I see VarChar fields like MemoFields in VFP. If they don't have fixed size, they can corrupt easier.
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>Like I said, I'm completly newbie in SQL Server and I'm a little bit scared about it! ;-)

O, no, nothing similar with Memo, just at the end they have additional 2 bytes that shows the length. The values are in the same table, not like Text or Image that have separete room for storage.