Odi's astoundingly incomplete notes

When you create a column in an Oracle table with VARCHAR2(32) this means the string can take up 32 bytes. With UTF-8 becoming more and more popular this is not the same as 32 characters. (In UTF-8 characters can use one to four bytes.) To circumvent this problem make sure to always create columns explicitely with the length in characters: VARCHAR2(32 CHAR).

posted on 2006-05-03 12:01 UTC in Code | 0 comments | permalink