Blank-padded comparison semantic with VARCHAR2 datatype

From: Alexandre Gorbatchev <alexandre.gorbatchev_at_avermann.de>
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 03:23:44 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005151C1.20021209032344@fatcity.com>

Hello all,

I am migrating an application to the Oracle backend. Unfortunately, it uses blank-padded semantics when compares string values. I store strings as VARCHAR2 in Oracle, which uses non-padded comparison semantics for it. The question: should I go for CHAR (oracle compare them as blank-padded) or there is some setting (session level preferably), so Oracle compare VARCHAR2 in the same way as CHAR?

TIA,
Alex

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