When working with dates and times in SQL Server, it’s common for formatting discrepancies to cause issues during query execution. To prevent errors, it’s crucial to ensure that date strings are ...

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 ...

betimer changed the title Keep generating the SET DEFAULT ARRAY[]::VARCHAR(64)[]; for postgreSQL migration SQL Keep generating the SET DEFAULT ARRAY[]::VARCHAR(64)[]; for postgreSQL migration SQL ...

java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to execute test org.opentest4j.AssertionFailedError: Execute sql in the tester lakehouse-iceberg/00007_varchar.sql under catalog ...

With the first public preview of SQL Server 2019, we announced support for the widely used UTF-8 character encoding as an import or export encoding, and as database-level or column-level collation for ...

A char datatype takes 1 byte per character. It is a fixed length character datatype i.e even though character entered are less than n,fixed memory size i.e n bytes are allocated to those characters.

Another one of these choices... to go with a char or varchar for a field. Not really an issue with space since we are only looking at a couple of thousand records or so but just wondering what the ...

18 July, 2012. It was a Wednesday. Doing a deployment last night, I ran into an issue around indexing performance around SQL columns of type varchar. Varchar is the ANSI version of character data – ...