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From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
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Subject: Re: Scalar in a range (but textual not numeric)
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On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 07:55:14 -0700,
  Edmund Bacon <ebacon@onesystem.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 12:18, Richard Huxton wrote:
> 
> As a complete aside:
> 
> Is there any advantage to use varchar instead of type text?

Only if there is a business rule that limits the length of the data.