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Timeline for Rule of thumb for field sizes

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May 15, 2012 at 11:48 vote accept James P.
May 15, 2012 at 7:54 comment added James P. Ok. Assume the database here is MySQL.
May 14, 2012 at 15:29 comment added Doc Brown +1. But when picking ridiculously large sizes, one should make sure the intended database system does not reserve the full amount of memory for each data row if the memory is not needed.
May 14, 2012 at 7:39 history answered Edward Strange CC BY-SA 3.0