Thank you Craig.

Alex

>char and varchar should not be considered as they don't support Unicode.
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>As for nchar and nvarchar, follow this advice (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186939.aspx)
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>Use nchar when the sizes of the column data entries are probably going to be similar.
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>Use nvarchar when the sizes of the column data entries are probably going to vary considerably.
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>>I'm planning a database in MySql and wonder what are the pertinent considerations of using char, varchar, nchar and nvarchar for fields.
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>>I read for example that char(6) pads right with spaces when saving but reads without trailing spaces, whereas varchar saves the exact number of trailing spaces and reads them back. What would you recommend as good practice to convert dbf tables? How about totally new tables?
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>>TIA,
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>>Alex