Re: Oracle SQL creating table as a copy of table

DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote:

>ALTER TABLE employees
>ADD (contractor_flag VARCHAR2(1));

And why not CHAR(1)? I thought there was a (minimal) overhead with VARCHAR2(x), so what's the point in imposing it for a field that you know will always be one and only one character?

Paul...

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