You probably only need to take them out of the polymorphic VI. Rename column calls delete column and they are both in the table polymorphic vi.
What sort of glitch?
-1 is much safer since if you supply a normal Labview string, you would have to add 1, however, if you supplied a null terminated string, you mustn't add the 1.The logic involved in detecting null chars outweighs any performance improvements you may get. If its better performance you are after, you'll have to wait for Version 1.1
However. If you are trying to insert a null char into the database. You will have problems since c strings are null terminated, So when you pass the string (even with the length) Labview needs to convert it from a Labview string (which has a length that may have leading nulls) to a C string and this conversion will invariably truncate your string.
Usually the way forward in the latter case is to use a "Blob" field but I haven't implemented that in this release.