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From: <sameergn_at_gmail.com>
Date: 3 Aug 2005 15:58:11 -0700
Message-ID: <1123109891.280543.265670@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> 





Hi,



The source table has a column which is varchar2(100).
If I create a view new_view on the column as
select substr(column_name, 1, 20) new_col from table,
then "desc new_view" command shows size of new_col as 60 i.e. 3 times
the intended size. Why is that? Is it because of multibyte characters?



Thanks,


Sameer.
Received on Wed Aug 03 2005 - 17:58:11 CDT












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