On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Whit Armstrongarmstrong.w...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a column which only has six states or values.
Is there a size advantage to using an enum for this data type?
Currently I have it defined as a character(1).
This table has about 600 million rows, so it could
I have a column which only has six states or values.
Is there a size advantage to using an enum for this data type?
Currently I have it defined as a character(1).
This table has about 600 million rows, so it could wind up making a
difference in total size.
Thanks,
Whit
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Whit Armstrong armstrong.w...@gmail.com writes:
I have a column which only has six states or values.
Is there a size advantage to using an enum for this data type?
Currently I have it defined as a character(1).
Nope. enums are always 4 bytes. char(1) is going to take 2 bytes
(assuming those
