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I have a varchar(900) which means that I can use 900bytes, so if I am not wrong if the character is unicode, y only can use 450 because each character need two bytes.I have a databease with a column that use the intercalation general_latin_CI_AI, but I don't know if this intercalation use 1byte per character or use 2bytes per character.How can I know how many bytes need a character of a varchar column?

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Hello all,

I have recently been task with rewriting a database that holds large volumes of data, whilst ensuring that query can be run in optimal time. Having never really delved into this sort of thing before, I hoped you guys might be able to offer some advice and guidance.

The design I have inherited is based around 2 main tables:


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[status] [int] NULL


[captured_varbinds]
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[captured_trap_id] [int] NOT NULL
[varbind_oid] [varchar] (500)
[varbind_text] [varchar (500)


The relationship between the two tables is on the "captured_traps (id)" to "captured_varbinds (captured_trap_id)". Currently the "captured_traps" table contains around 350 million rows, the "captured_varbinds" table contains around 900 million rows.

Now as you can probably gather this model runs like a....well it sort of hobbles more than runs hence the need to redesign.

My current thoughts on this are:

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- Full Text Indexing

However beyond that I am not sure which route to go down. After googling for most of today I have come across a number of "solutions" however I do not want to go steaming down the track of one of these to discover that it is fatally flawed somewhere.

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