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Changing Char to Varchar Datatype
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07/09/2006 04:58:48
 
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Microsoft SQL Server
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Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01145012
Message ID:
01151625
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Hi Sergey,

I've already implemented what you suggested on one of my projects. I was able to shrunk a 6GB database to 3GB by changing the Char datatypes to VarChar. I did this by creating an identical database with the fields data type set to VarChar and then Exporting the data from the original database.

The setup was fine for about a week until we found a glaring increase in the size of the database. in a span of 3 days, the database grew up to 5 GB. Is there a logical explanation on how it ended up acquiring to much space?

Please advice

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