>I thought the varchar field type would save space in the file size of my table?
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>I have a table that has thousands of records and many character fields, I thought by changing the character fields to varchar the table size would be reduced?
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>Have I got this all wrong?
The table size is not reduced. As I understand it, VFP VarChar is there mainly to improve interoperability with SQL Server. IIRC another effect is different handling of trailing spaces/column padding. See the help: "HELP FIELD TYPES" for VarChar, including the code sample.
Regards. Al
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