Data Dictionary Wierdness

From: Orr, Steve <sorr_at_rightnow.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 15:18:17 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.003E8FA8.20020107142521@fatcity.com>

This does not work:
select owner,table_name,cache from dba_tables where cache='Y';

This does:
select owner,table_name,cache from dba_tables where cache=' Y';

The datatype for the column from desc dba_tables is VARCHAR2(5).

So why would Oracle have leading spaces stored in a VARCHAR2 column?

Whining in Bozeman, MT
Steve Orr
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