Hi All,

If I have an index on a key field of type VARCHAR and double its size from 15 
to 30, how will this impact performance?  By performance, I mean data 
retrieval.

I think that if we are talking about small quantities of data (> 500MB 
maybe?) things would slow some but not appreciably.  Am I correct?  Or maybe 
there are other factors I am not considering?

Thanks for your input.


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