DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CHAR AND VARCHAR DATA TYPE IN SQL SERVER 2005
Similarities & Differences.
1.Both are non – unicode character data type.
2.Both can store maximum of 8000 characters.
3.Char data type is fixed length while a varchar data type is variable length.
4.If the number of characters entered in a char data type column is
less than the declared column length , spaces are appened to it to fill
up the whole length.
5.The storage size of char data type is n bytes while for varchar data type it is actual length in bytes of the data entered.
6.One should use char data type when the data values in a column are expected to be consistently close to the same size.
7.One should use varchar data type when the data values in a column are expected to vary considerably in size.
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