This may be a stupid question but I’m curious to hear opinions about converting my existing column named: country varchar(40) to enum and hard code the list of all countries, does making this change improve performance??
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This may be a stupid question but I’m curious to hear opinions about converting my existing column named: country varchar(40) to enum and hard code the list of all countries, does making this change improve performance??
Yes.
It should improve performance and reduce disk space usage.