Re: VARCHAR2 and trailing spaces

From: <ctcgag_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 30 Sep 2002 21:45:16 GMT
Message-ID: <20020930174516.747$n3@newsreader.com>

nigel.hurst_at_food.ds-s.com (dnh) wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 10:42:35 GMT, Kenneth Koenraadt wrote:
>
> Hi Kenneth, Richard
>
> I know what it does and, in a way, why; but I'm sure I've read in many
> places that varchar2s strip off spaces - am I imagining that detail or
> is some documentation in error???

Are you sure you are reading Oracle documentation? Other databases do tail strip their varchars. Mysql does, alas (but they aren't varchar2, just varchar).

Xho

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