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Re: VARCHAR vs. TEXT - some performance numbers
Posted by: Rob Blick
Date: July 31, 2006 09:48AM

Right on! That's it - the VARCHAR query pulls the results from the index, while the TEXT query has to grab the record. Like you suggested, if I index only on the first 100 characters in both tables, the difference disappears; both are slow, b/c the records have to be retrieved in both cases. Thanks so much for the insight!

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