Hi,
I have a table - email log -where the application (VFP 9) stores records of each email sent by the application or a user.
The table has a field TO_EMAIL CHAR(100) where the string of all recipient emails is stored. E.g. "
user1@company.com,
user2@company.com"
A couple of days ago I received an error - generated by SQL SERVER - "String or binary data would be truncated". This error was emailed to me by one of the customer. Clearly they probably created a string of email recipients longer than 100.
In my test DB I change the type of field from CHAR(100) to VARCHAR(MAX). In my testing on my computer it works.
My question, what is or are the downside(s) of changing CHAR(FIXED) to VARCHAR(MAX)?
TIA
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