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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: NEWB question no. 1
Its mainly still there for backwards compatibility. I
actually read that in one of their manuals but I can't
remember which (or even the version). I personally never
use it as I have seen way to much in the way coding problems
then anything. I don't even care about the space issues.
I just can't get past the amount of times I have watched
developers struggle debugging something that was due to
the extra spaces in the text.
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From: Margaret [mailto:chigarden_at_netzero.net]
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 3:35 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: NEWB question no. 1
Good morning all !
Okay...here goes with question #1
In reading and playing with SQL*PLUS I see that there is CHAR ( text strings that are padded to the length you set) and VARCHAR2 (text strings that are not padded). My question is why would one ever use CHAR ? It seems it would require MUCH more space
thanks,
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