April 2014

Oracle

Extended Data Types with VARCHAR2(32767)

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In the Oracle 12 New Features Guide you will find this sentence: “The maximum size of the VARCHAR2, NVARCHAR2, and RAW data types has been increased from 4,000 to 32,767 bytes“ Increasing the allotted size for these data types allows users to store more information in character data types before switching to large objects (LOBs). This is especially useful for brief textual data types and the capabilities to build indexes on these types of columns.” ( Oracle® Database New Features Guide 12c Release 1 (12.1) E17906-16 Page 1-13 What great news! Especially if you want to upgrade your database to

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Flashback Archive second Edition

Flashback Archive becomes more and more my top Oracle feature as it is easy to implement and has a huge advantage for all kind of applications and compliance of course. So in my blog from January 2014 I already explained the idea of flashback data archive. Some of you might found some time to test and wondering about additional features or behaviors they wouldn’t have expected.

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