On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Al Musella, DPM <muse...@virtualtrials.com> wrote: > > I didn't know that. So would it be safer to use all nchar fields > in the database instead of char, then no matter what the paramater > came in as, it is faster to convert the parameter to unicode once > than to convert every value in the index?
It would seem that way. My rule of thumb is now: Always use nchar even if you know it will NEVER have unicode data in it (like you're storing a coldfusion UUID) because CF will do all unicode or all non-unicode. -- Rick Root New Brian Vander Ark Album, songs in the music player and cool behind the scenes video at www.myspace.com/brianvanderark ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:319321 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
