[dev] MSSQL portability options
Matt Selsky
selsky at columbia.edu
Wed Jan 18 03:36:31 PST 2006
> I would make it per db, like we already do it in Kronolith. BTW, that
> reminds that we had the same problem with Oracle where we used CHAR
> fields instead of VARCHAR. CHAR fields were always padded to the full
> length. Do we leave Oracle alone because it can be fixed by using the
> correct column types, or do we want to RTRIM them too, to be on the
> safe side?
Let's use the correct column types for Oracle and leave it be. We
already created an upgrade script for Oracle to help admins fix the
column type.
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Matt
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