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Maximum column name length?? [message #57692] Tue, 01 July 2003 02:00 Go to next message
bei
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Registered: November 2001
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Does anyone know if there is a limit to how long a column name can be in a table?
Re: Maximum column name length?? [message #57696 is a reply to message #57692] Tue, 01 July 2003 03:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
psmyth
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Registered: October 2002
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dba_tab_columns shows the colmn_name field to be defined as a varchar2(30)... so from that I would deduce that the limit is 30 characters.
Re: Maximum column name length?? [message #57697 is a reply to message #57692] Tue, 01 July 2003 03:42 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Vikas Gupta
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Registered: February 2002
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You can go upto 30 chars.

Regards,

Vikas Gupta.
Re: Maximum column name length?? [message #57698 is a reply to message #57696] Tue, 01 July 2003 03:49 Go to previous messageGo to next message
krishna
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Registered: October 1998
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Its 30 Characters.
for more details see here
http://www.schemamania.org/jkl/booksonline/SQLBOL70/html/2_005_4.htm

Re: Maximum column name length?? [message #57705 is a reply to message #57698] Tue, 01 July 2003 05:44 Go to previous message
bei
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Registered: November 2001
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Thanks very much for the replies :) !!
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