Elias Martenson wrote:
Wouldn't is be a good idea to set _UNICODE=YES and DEFAULT_CODE=UNICODE as default for future versions of SapDB? I believe this would solve a lot of problems people are having, especially for people using Java.I don't think that this is a very good idea, because unicode is twice the size (2 byte) as ASCII. For the system tables this might not be a problem, but as soon as you store a large amount of data you might run into size problems. I find performance and efficiency more important in real life applications than the ease of the configuration task.
By the way, what about the performace for string compares (str1 = str2) or (str1 like 'xzy%') for unicode columns? Is there a difference? Can unicode columns be indexed?
Regards,
Arne
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