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Database: CHAR and VARCHAR – What are the differences?
Most programmers may already know the main different between CHAR and VARCHAR - The first one supports fixed-length data and the second one supports variable-lengths of data.
Some people may think, since VARCHAR can do what CHAR does, then why we still need CHAR in our database design. I even have heard one of the very experienced Oracle database administrator say "Nowadays nobody is using CHAR anymore, you can forget about putting CHAR column in your database design".
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