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If you read the entire post, you would see that no one was saying 32768 (or
32787) was the maximum.
-- "Mark C. Stock" <mcstockX_at_Xenquery .com> wrote in message news:-N6dnUAknNe0oE6iRVn-hA_at_comcast.com...Received on Sun Dec 07 2003 - 11:31:22 CST
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> | Where does your 32787 come from - typo, I presume?
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> Apparently a typo, but not 32768 either...
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> PL/SQL User's Guide, Fundamentals chapter:
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> You use the VARCHAR2 datatype to store variable-length character data. How
> the
> data is represented internally depends on the database character set. The
> VARCHAR2
> datatype takes a required parameter that specifies a maximum size up to
> 32767
> bytes.
>
> -- mcs
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