Have a table (SQL Server 2008) that the user wants to record a fixed 8 character string in. At first glance, a CHAR seems the obvious selection since this value (an 8 character ID, two alpha ...

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 ...