Is it ridiculous ... ?

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 8/30/05 4:08 PM, "Thierry Nauze" <ohmitou at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> Hi Ruslan
> 
> I badly explained myself : I said table instead of field !
> 
> I have, for example , a data base with a table which contains 30 fields.
> The table contains 10 000 records. OK ?
> 
> I add another field ( varchar ) : on the 10 000 records of the table,
> maximum ten will have a value for this field.
> 
> Is the difference of size between the first base and the second
> important?

It depends on YOU.

You must decide if it is important.

Size will be bigger about 8 * 10,000 = 80Kb.
May be little more.


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