Oracle stores columns of CHAR type with a length field, the same as for variable length columns, so unlike other DBMSes , there is no advantage in space usage to using fixed-length CHAR rather than variable length. However, since comparison of fixed-length CHAR columns will provide for automatic padding the data type of Oracle columns should be either CHAR or VARCHAR2, as deemed appropriate for the data being stored in the column.

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