In that case, I would go for integer. Leaves you open for variations later. I have always found integer to be the best choice for performance and just plain stability.
Dennis McGrath -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of A. Razzak Memon Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 3:54 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: text (1) vs. integer - Razzak's Reply At 13:33 18/01/2003 -0800, Atrix Wolfe wrote: >I was wondering for preformance, which would be better to have >for a column which has 4 possible states(1,2,3,4 vs A,B,C,D) ? >Would it be text (1) since a char takes up 1 or 2 bytes (depending >on if its unicode or not...not sure how rbase stores it) or would it be >integer (4 bytes?). Atrix, In either case, R:BASE reserves a minimum of four bytes of internal storage space. Cheers, Razzak.
