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Old 02-27-2008, 02:14 AM
Serge Rielau
 
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Default Re: Unicode DB2 Performance

Izabella Ford wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm dealing with internationalization with DB2 here.
> Performance-wise, is there any difference between using vargraphic and
> varchar. Say for example, if I choose between using vargraphic(32)
> and varchar(64) to support 2-byte foreign characters, is there any
> significant performance difference in DB2. Please let me know.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Izabella
> izabellaford@yahoo.com

To the best of my knowledge there is no difference.
Performance gets a really interesting topic once you start considering
advanced collations (such as Thai on DB2 LUW).

Cheers
Serge
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