Re: 5 ora6 -> ora7 problem

• Original Article -------------------------
  >>On Oracle V6 all things worked fine. I defined a table to store
  >>the names of patients.
  

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>>hen 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

When we converted from 6 to 7 we changed many of our fields to varchar2 to avoid this problem.

This solved the problem for our C++ programs w/o changes to the code.

Ralph Byrd
rbyrd_at_lmsc.lockheed.com