RE: Data Dictionary Wierdness

From: Mohan, Ross <MohanR_at_STARS-SMI.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 15:31:24 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.003E903D.20020107152019@fatcity.com>

used to do this (still does?) with degree in the same table.

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Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 5:25 PM
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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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