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 ...

Instead of the CHAR data type, you can use VARCHAR for variable-length character data, NCHAR for international Unicode data or NVARCHAR for variable-length Unicode.

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