Ask Tom "Char Vs Varchar" - Oracle
Followup April 03, 2002 - 6:26 pm UTC varchar2's can store trailing blanks -- IF You put them there. the answer is simple. 'a ' 'a' tried this in 8i (r2 and r3) ops$tkyte@ORA817DEV.US.ORACLE.COM> create table t ( x char(10), y varchar2(10) ); Table creat...