Emanuele Meazzo tidies up the database:
Do you know the feeling when someone gives you a flat file to import, without any schema information? You have to dump it in your database as-is, then spend precious time figuring out the data type for each column
Let me help you with that, as I’m helping myself too.
Click through for the scenario, as well as a link to the script Emanuele has created. It looks like the script doesn’t try to estimate string lengths, instead focusing on types alone.