Converting fields from VarChar to String

[Christer Olsson]

We're considering to change several VarChar fields to String fields to avoid some corruption troubles we are seeing with VarChar fields. Is it considered safe to just convert the fields or should we make new String fields, copy the values from VarChar fields and then drop VarChar fields?

Best,
Christer

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