Efficient use of text-containing field

[jda]

>One option if you're really concerned about performance because:
>
>     1) you have a LOT of records, and
>     2) a lot of the strings in VarChar(1022) field really are sizeable in
>        length, i.e significantly longer than 16 characters,
>
>
>  >
>  >   Is the sort method the most efficient (space-saving) way to do this?

As I said, I do not care about performance. It is already blazingly 
fast. I care about size/space.

Jon