On Tuesday 29 April 2008 08:21:37 Charles Lambach wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I've got a table with some fields, which I created with VARCHAR(100).
>
> I want to optimize this table, and I want to modify the length of these
> fields from VARCHAR(100) to VARCHAR(maximum_length), where "maximum_length"
> is the length of the record with the longest field.
>
> I could create a Perl script to do it, but I wonder if there's a mySQL
> command which does it automatically.
>
> Thank you very much,
> --Charles

Couldn't you also use procedure analyse()?

SELECT column FROM table PROCEDURE ANALYSE(10, 2000);

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