In the world of relational databases, VARCHAR is one of the most commonly used string data types, primarily used for storing variable-length character data. However, for many beginners, the ...

If I declare a varchar(1000) for a field and someone enters "hi", I'm wondering how the memory is allocated for it. I was under the impression that varchar2(1000) in Oracle would only allocate space ...

Version 8.0 of the QuestDB time series database is said to be significantly faster. Furthermore, the open source version now also supports ZFS compression. After just over a month, the developers of ...

In ODBC Driver (17 and 18) for SQL Server, it will report the size of VARCHAR(MAX) and NVARCHAR(MAX) as 0, causing an optimized bind_data route to be taken and having only the first amount of data to ...