ora6 -> ora7 problem

I developed a program on the ULTRIX-workstation dec5000/120 with ORACLE V6.0.29.1.1 and i want to port the program to an alpha-station 3000 AXP 300L with ORACLE V7.0.13.1.0.

And now the problem:
On Oracle V6 all things worked fine. I defined a table to store the names of patients.

EXEC SQL CREATE TABLE patient

     ( id          DECIMAL,
       firstname   CHAR(50),
       secname     CHAR(50),


       ...

       ...

     );

When i store the name 'Smith' and i want to retrieve the name later, i get 'Smith' from the database back.

But with Oracle V7:	I get 'Smith       '
			       ^^^^^^^^^^^^
			       50 characters

I don't want to edit all sql-statements in my project (it's very big)!

What else can i do? Does a migration-tool exist?

Thanks,

        Juergen.

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