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  • August 5, 2009 at 9:07 am

    #1034868

    For your first comment about reducing the field length from INT to SMALLINT, you said the change will take place only in the "metadata", what is a "metadata" and why is it even needed? Is this is the database "catalog"?

    Is that not confusing, the user will think the change has taken place and in reality it does not?