Unless Oracle has plans of buying IBM and decommissioning DB2
;-)
Murali.
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Wednesday, December 10, 2003, 3:39:26 PM, DENNIS WILLIAMS
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DW> 2. I have been curious about Oracle's statement that you should use
DW> VARCHAR2.
I am too, now. That statement in the docs about the meaning
of VARCHAR maybe changing someday has been there as far back
as my own DBA career goes. Given that VARCHAR is in the
ANSI/ISO standard, and that it's supported by DB2 and by SQL
Server, its meaning doesn't seem likely to change, so it
almost seems more reasonable (to me) to use it than to
recommend against using it.
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