Friday, February 24, 2012

Data type: Text vs VarChar (10000)

I have a table that is used to archive communications.
One of the fields is ComText, I've used the "Text" data type for this field.
Now my question is if I use a varchar data type with the length of (10000) would it improve performance in any way (specialy for reporting purposes)?The maximum row size is less than 8k. Plus, it is not good to have a very long varchar field, the space usage will be poor.|||Thanks for your reply.
Do you have experience regarding this issue and an Access front end, cause it seems to me that access reports have some trobule printing reports with memo fields, specially when the machine has a low RAM.

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