Re: Pros and Cons of using Char and Varchar2

From: Brian Peasland <peasland_at_usgs.gov>
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 14:17:33 GMT
Message-ID: <3ACDCFFD.14D81816@usgs.gov>

> I am fairly new to Oracle -- but a colleague nix'd the use of CHAR
> saying it is a deprecated data type. Has anyone else heard of this?

This is not true since CHAR is part of the SQL92 ANSI standard and still will be in the SQL3 ANSI standard.

HTH,
Brian

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Received on Fri Apr 06 2001 - 09:17:33 CDT