Re: Oracle 8i - the space wasting pig

UTF8 default is 2 bytes as it allows for all NLS char sets to be stored including japanese etc. I dont think you can change it.

John

At 10:56 AM 5/30/00 -0800, Andreas Jung wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>I am running a Oracle 8i database with UTF8 character set. I store text files
>inside a CLOB (extra lob segment). I can see that Oracle always needs two
times
>the space to store the text inside the LOB segement compared to the size
of the
>originial file. Is this a general problem or is this problem related to the
>UTF8 character set ?! It seems to me that Oracle need 2 bytes for every
>character although most of the text is pure Ascii.
>
>Andreas
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