Ask your system administrators what policies exist for their servers...Your
company should have a policy in this regard, if not step in first and set
the standards.
Piotr Cieslewicz wrote in message <35CEA518.8E790CC0_at_do.poznan.tpsa.pl>...
>Username is defined as a VARCHAR2(30) data, so it can contains up to 30
>bytes (it means 30 characters when you're using one byte character set
>and half of this with two bytes character set). But this is only
>database limitation not a recomendation.
>
>hope this helps
>
>Peter
>
>Njål A. Ekern wrote:
>
>> Can anyone help me out on this?
>> We are about to make a simple user management-routine in
>> our application.
>> When creating users, are there any recommendations regarding
>> the maximum length of usernames? 8? 13? 16? 30(as in
>> the dictionary)?...
>>
>> We are using v7.3 on HP-Unix.
>>
>> TIA,
>> Njål
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>
>
>
Received on Mon Aug 10 1998 - 06:17:34 CDT
