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Re: DBMS
Posted by: Gregory Cerveny
Date: September 03, 2004 01:57PM

Varchars are variable length strings with the one byte defining the length of the string. Chars are fixed length strings.

Here is the manual page that describes the differences:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/CHAR.html

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