The differences in processing efficiency between MySQL’s three character storage types should not have a big impact on processing times unless your data sets are extremely large.

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I'm reading this comically bad book on SQL. For almost every third exercise in the book, the solution the author provides is wrong. It's a good thing, really, it keeps you on your toes and forces ...