Re: Length of username

From: Piotr Cieslewicz <cieslewi_at_do.poznan.tpsa.pl>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 09:45:28 +0200
Message-ID: <35CEA518.8E790CC0@do.poznan.tpsa.pl>

Username is defined as a VARCHAR2(30) data, so it can contains up to 30 bytes (it means 30 characters when you're using one byte character set and half of this with two bytes character set). But this is only database limitation not a recomendation.

hope this helps

Peter

Njål A. Ekern wrote:

> Can anyone help me out on this?
> We are about to make a simple user management-routine in
> our application.
> When creating users, are there any recommendations regarding
> the maximum length of usernames? 8? 13? 16? 30(as in
> the dictionary)?...
>
> We are using v7.3 on HP-Unix.
>
> TIA,
> Njål
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Received on Mon Aug 10 1998 - 02:45:28 CDT