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  3. January 2005

RE: Variable length fields

> The pointer on performance was appreciated...

The performance benefit is often a good reason for using variable length
fields.  A Web based forum application might use a variable length field of
say 32K to store messages posted from users.  Storing a "trimmed" message in
the database means that your application never needs to trim it again before
writing it to a browser.  Over the life of the application, that can save a
lot of CPU cycles ;-)  I use variable length fields a LOT in RPG based Web
apps.

HTH,

Nathan.

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