I hope you and I are around to argue about that...

Well that's cool!  I even like how the site says "Not another MySQL install).

Understood on the spam.  The cool part there is, if SPAM shows up on a thread that...

Just curious... not including the path of the file, what is the name and extension of the file?  The reason I ask is it sounds like they didn't send you...

I'd' say it's time to stop...

Just got a good laugh at the end of this conversation.  Saw the following line.  Is this a limitation of a CHAR data element?

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How so?  Especially when it comes to single byte stuff that even you know will never change?

I almost always agree with Phil and Grant that this should be done at presentation time in whatever app is generating the final output.

But, then there's the human factors of...

This conversation brings up an ancient pain of mine and that's the mantra of "Pre-optimization is the root of all evil" parable that Knuth first stated in one of his...

BigQuery has a data type called STRING with no size specification.

In Snowflake all text columns are VARCHAR under the hood, including CHAR.

For pure column stores the method of encoding...

Sure.  I use CHAR.  It's all a part of right-sizing data.  Such right sizing does some incredible things, not the least of which is preventing the massive page splits and...

Maybe. I'd like to think that we prevent a posting here, so no one is notified, which should prevent there being two.

I have asked for data analysis of threads...

No.

You've got that all...

Unfortunately some of the leaders are saying the dev and design groups are too busy to work much on providing documentation or to concern themselves with the structure of...

If you use a compressed backup of a single table database, you wouldn't have to worry about zipping anything and you wouldn't have to worry about doing it in "off...

If you stop a job and the actual...