What is the difference between CHAR and VARCHAR data types?

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What is the difference between CHAR and VARCHAR data types?..

Answer / rajan vardawaj

CHAR is a fixed length data type. CHAR(n) will take n
characters of storage even if you enter less than n
characters to that column. For example, “Hello!”

will be stored as “Hello! ” in CHAR(10) column. VARCHAR is a
variable length data type. VARCHAR(n) will take only the
required storage for the actual number

of [...]

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What is the difference between CHAR and VARCHAR data types?..

Answer / shekoli

Char is a fixed lenth datatype. Ex: char(7), welcome

but varchar is a variable length datatypes, Ex:
varchar(7),welcome (or) come

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