Re: clob to varchar2 (+ I forgot to make some more contribution)

From: Angel Vera <gunfus_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 12:44:40 -0400
Message-ID: <9duapr$omm$1@tornews.torolab.ibm.com>

Thanks for the correction Galen.

"Galen Boyer" <galenboyer_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:uu22n4aw5.fsf_at_primix.com...
> On Mon, 14 May 2001, gunfus_at_yahoo.com wrote:
>
> > 2) A varchar2(3000) will always be a 3000 character cloumn,
> > which indeed it cam bring you a whole bunge of problems. This
> > happends because Oracle will pad the empty space of the field
> > with "_" characters or " " (can't remenber which one" and it
>
> Huh? I do believe you mean char(x) column even though your 3000
> number is off as well. varchar2() is just what you would think
> it is, variable size, based on the data.
>
> > makes the column not very reliable
>
> Makes the poster not very reliable.
>
> --
> Galen
> I don't want to be the rock. Yeah, okay, what do you want to be?
> I want to be the piece of glass.
Received on Wed May 16 2001 - 11:44:40 CDT