Re: History behind 30 character name limit?

From: William Robertson <williamr2019_at_googlemail.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 11:24:00 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <037994e3-b4e2-432c-9080-b176d4aef8b8@m34g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>


On Mar 6, 1:57 pm, ricfor..._at_yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> > Because "30 characters ought to be enough for anybody"...
>
> > C.
>
> When you consider they had to use the char datatype from version 2 up
> to (I think) 5 that limit was probably pretty reasonable...

The old CHAR datatype in Oracle 5 was variable-length and pretty similar to the VARCHAR2 we have now. imp/exp and migration utilities converted v5 CHAR to VARCHAR2.

I'm very glad we still have a 30-character limit. Received on Sat Mar 08 2008 - 13:24:00 CST

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