Hello,

I have a question about VARCHAR fields. Our application groups here
are starting to use VARCHARs much more frequently. Even VARCHAR (2) to
(9) length fields. They say this is because some of the application
programs, specifically Java Beans cannot handle the spaces after the
value in CHAR fields.

Is anyone else seeing this trend?

I know that VARCHAR fields have 2 extra bytes of overhead. Does anyone
know if there is a significant performance impact in DML against these
fields due to tracking the length?

Thanks in advance for any and all information,

Jeff