Janine Sisk said: > problematic, according to Ask Tom, because everything takes up more > space and things can overflow their storage (something else Oracle Not really. ASCII charcters still take up only one byte. True, you couldn't put 200 Chinese characters in a varchar(200), but as one chinese character represents much more than character in the Latin alphabet would, so you need much less of them. My resident Chinese expert says that on average you will probably see a 50% increase in space used, assuming 4-byte characters.
But that is an extreme, more likely you will only see some 2-byte characters added here and there for the accents and such on european languages. I'd also stay away from Oracle, even with a team of qualified DBAs, I have nothing but bad experience with it; yours is just another example! :) Cheers, Bas. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
