Re: Maximum length of table and column names

On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 14:10:05 GMT, Hans Forbrich <news.hans_at_telus.net> wrote:

>Jens Riedel wrote:
>
>> My question: is a column name also limited to 30 characters and is there
>> a possibility to change these settings instead of shortening the table
>> and column names?
>
>All Table, View and Clumn identifiers, as well as many others, are limited
>to 30 characters.

 A picky proviso to this - that's 30 bytes, not characters, regardless of NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS which doesn't apply to the dictionary. Developers in countries with non-English alphabets may well use characters requiring more than one byte in their database's character set encoding.

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