>Dear All
>
>Somehow did not sound right to me but it is infact happening.
>
>Changed one large column (240 chars) from Character to Varchar and size on disc actually increased ???
>I was actually expecting some optimisation with disc space but got actually opossite from what I expected
>Difference is very small but still ...
>
>Is varchar introduced only for better compatibility with remote data or there is some other practical use to
>varchar fields versus old fashion character type columns ?
>
>TIA

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