I know - I know - I'm Mr. lonely today!

>You'll find enough time for that if yoi brake your UT adiction. <bg>
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>>I am going too - I think my clock needs more time slices:-)
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>>>Good question. I can only guess, but when access records in a table varchar should be slower because it requires some extra work to get value from the table field. However difference may be negligible. Feel free to run some test and share results with us. :)
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>>>>Thank you Sergy - the example explains it well. Would you happen to know, other than eliminating the need to trim, if there is a a performance advantage of one field type over another?