• sqlchanakya (2/18/2011)


    Here comes a question,

    Say my tale has the following structure:

    ( RID varchar(20) - 20bytes

    TAID Bigint - 8 bytes

    Date DateTime - 8 bytes

    RowID Bigint - 8 bytes(identity)

    )

    p.s. A varchar(20) is not 20 bytes in size. It's anything from 2 to 22 bytes in size.

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