Have a table (SQL Server 2008) that the user wants to record a fixed 8 character string in. At first glance, a CHAR seems the obvious selection since this value (an 8 character ID, two alpha ...

If I declare a varchar(1000) for a field and someone enters "hi", I'm wondering how the memory is allocated for it. I was under the impression that varchar2(1000) in Oracle would only allocate space ...