Friday, March 12, 2010

Length Semantics for Character Datatypes

How to determine the column length in different database character set and length semantics? For example, you need to define a VARCHAR2 column that can store up to 5 Chinese characters together with 5 English characters.

Database Character Set

Length Semantics

Single byte

Multiple byte

BYTE

10 BYTE

5*3+5*1=20 BYTE

CHAR

10 CHAR

10 CHAR

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