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Re: Why NCHAR?

From: <tedchyn_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 17:01:07 GMT
Message-ID: <7so7sc$ik3$1@nnrp1.deja.com>


I think this may have relate to different version of oracle nchar,nvarchar2 came with oracle 8. before that you can create database using different character set.
ted chyn
In article <7slubg$2a8$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,   pioneer07_at_my-deja.com wrote:
> What is NCHAR, NVARCHAR2 for? If I can use CHAR and VARCHAR2 to store
> multi-byte character data by using multi-byte character set, why
bother
> with NCHAR and NVARCHAR2? Anybody know?
>
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