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Will empty string take up more space?
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22/10/2004 07:31:29
 
 
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22/10/2004 07:08:09
Km Kwun
Eastop Consultants Limited
Nt, Hong Kong
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00953619
Message ID:
00953670
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>Hi Fabio,
>
>How about SQL Server? Will defaulting a TEXT field to an empty string (real value) take up more or less space than defaulting it to Null (no value) in SQL Server.
>
>
>Ben
>

On MS SQL NULLs are very optimized.
Practically they do not occupy space.

MS SQL allocation it is not linear,
but with a simple table with 1 Text field
show a 10/1 ratio for ''/NULL.

Fabio
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