On Friday, September 8, 2017, John Turner <
fenwayriffs@gmail.com> wrote:
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
> Based on LENGTH(offending_column), none of the values are more than 144
> bytes in this 44.2M row table. Even though VARCHAR is, by definition,
> variable length, are there any internal design issues which would make
> things more efficient if it were dropped to, for example, VARCHAR(256)?
No.
So the declarative column length has no bearing on memory grants during plan generation/execution?
Nope. Memory usage is proportional to the size of the string, not the maximum length for varchar. Maximum length is a constraint.
merlin