Is there any performance difference between varchar(1) and char(1)? Which RDBMS handle these two datatypes and sizes in different ways?
Is there any performance difference between varchar(1) and char(1) ? Which RDBMS handle these
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Is there any performance difference between varchar(1) and char(1)? Which RDBMS handle these two datatypes and sizes in different ways?
The difference will be negligible in most cases. Concentrate your performance oriented design efforts in places where it will make a real difference, like table composition and index design.
It helps to divide the design effort into two layers: logical design and physical design.
Most of the performance oriented effort is in the second stage, physical design.
In logical design, flexibility trumps performance. Except when it doesn’t.