From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Tue Feb 8 10:33:11 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j18GXBoJ006600 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 10:33:11 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j18GX8em006591 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 10:33:08 -0600 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 4B66B6E7F7; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 10:30:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 32223-04; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 10:30:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id C4CE76DEBA; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 10:30:28 -0500 (EST) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6603.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: RE: Different default 8i/9i column lengths when selecting pseudo columns... Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 10:30:08 -0500 Message-ID: <9E0E38DB4ACFAA4593AD6C4A45C9D5F009CF7237@LOUMLVEM01.e2k.ad.ge.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Different default 8i/9i column lengths when selecting pseudo columns... Thread-Index: AcUKCUGwhI9VcbQgRQG20Z+Kne9rCwD6XEYg From: "Adams, Matthew (GE Consumer & Industrial)" To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Feb 2005 15:28:39.0573 (UTC) FILETIME=[DD491C50:01C50DF2] X-archive-position: 15926 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: MATT.ADAMS@GE.COM Precedence: normal Reply-To: MATT.ADAMS@GE.COM X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=HOT_NASTY autolearn=ham version=2.60 X-Spam-Level: I have seen this behavior occur (different column lengths) when the databases are different character sets. See if one database is using a multi-byte characters set (such as UTF8) and the other is using a single byte character set. ---- Matt Adams - GE Appliances - matt.adams@appl.ge.com "Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi." - Larry Wall (creator of Perl)=20 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org]On Behalf Of Thomas Day Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 10:49 AM To: CMarquez@aarp.org Cc: oracle-l@freelists.org Subject: Re: Different default 8i/9i column lengths when selecting pseudo columns... Hi guy. My results, obviously on windows. Try a describe on dual and see if someone has renamed the column. I haven't been able to reproduce your results. Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production PL/SQL Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production CORE 9.2.0.1.0 Production TNS for 32-bit Windows: Version 9.2.0.1.0 - Production NLSRTL Version 9.2.0.1.0 - Production 5 rows selected. SQL> select 'xxxxx' from dual; 'XXXX ----- xxxxx 1 row selected. SQL> col xxxxx format a20 SQL> select 'xxxxx' xxxxx from dual; XXXXX -------------------- xxxxx SQL> desc dual Name =20 ----------------------------------- DUMMY =20 SQL> col dummy format a20 SQL> select 'xxxxx' from dual; 'XXXX ----- xxxxx 1 row selected. SQL> select 'xxxxx' dummy from dual; DUMMY -------------------- xxxxx 1 row selected. -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l