Antiquated Software

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 12:44:13AM -0500, Fairlight wrote:
> You'll never BELIEVE what Jay Ashworth said here...:
> > > Actually, I have converted all of my Filepro files to another modern data 
> > > base and they are smalleer then Filepro's
> > 
> > I'd be exceedingly surprised.
> 
> I wouldn't.  Using varchar as opposed to fixed-width fields, especially on
> large fields, I'd -expect- a size decrease.  
> 
> Why wouldn't you expect the same?

Hmmm.  Wasn't thinking about that.  Depends on how many large character
fields you *have* in your tables, I guess.

Cheers,
-- jra
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