Month: July 2024

Character Strings-Datatypes

There are four basic character string types in Oracle, namely, CHAR, VARCHAR2, NCHAR, and NVARCHAR2. All of the strings are stored in the same format in Oracle. On the database block, they will have a leading length field of 1–3 bytes followed by the data; when they are NULL, they will be represented as a Read More

NLS Overview-Datatypes-2

Notice how in the 7-bit session I received the letter “a” three times with no diacritical marks. However, the DUMP function is showing me that in the database there are, in fact, three separate distinct characters, not just the letter “a.” The data in the database hasn’t changed—just the values this client received. If this Read More