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Re: Unicode Character Allocation

From: Laurenz Albe <invite_at_spam.to.invalid>
Date: 18 Apr 2006 07:39:07 GMT
Message-ID: <1145345947.231492@proxy.dienste.wien.at> 





Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>> The CHAR option is the default so
>> most just use VARCHAR2(100).




> 

> NO - Byte is default, CHAR must be specified!




If you do not change the configuration parameters, BYTE is indeed default.
If you set NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS=CHAR, then CHAR will be default (after the
next instance restart because of Bug 1488174).



Yours,


Laurenz Albe
Received on Tue Apr 18 2006 - 02:39:07 CDT












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