HP Neoview Data Types - NCHAR

Versions: HP Neoview 2.4, 2.3 and 2.2

HP Neoview - NCHAR
Syntax	NCHAR[(n)]
Data	Fixed-length character data in Unicode (UCS-2) or ISO88591 (Latin1) character set
Parameters	n is the maximum number of characters, optional
Range	1 ⇐ n ⇐ (32708 - size of other columns)
Default	n is 1, Unicode - UCS-2
Padding	Right-padded with spaces to n
Storage Size	n bytes
Synonyms	NATIONAL CHAR, NATIONAL CHARACTER
Standards	ANSI SQL

HP Neoview NCHAR - Equivalents in Other Databases

Database	Data Type and Conversion
Oracle	NCHAR(n), 1 ⇐ n ⇐ 2000/charsize, Unicode - UTF-8 or UTF-16
SQL Server	NCHAR(n), 1 ⇐ n ⇐ 4000, Unicode - UCS-2
IBM DB2	GRAPHIC(n), 1 ⇐ n ⇐ 127, double-byte
MySQL	NCHAR(n), 0 ⇐ n ⇐ 255, Unicode - UTF-8 and TEXT or VARCHAR(n), if n > 255
PostgreSQL	CHAR(n), 1 ⇐ n ⇐ 1G
Sybase ASE	NCHAR(n), 1 ⇐ n ⇐ pagesize (2K, 4K, 8K or 16K); UNICHAR(n), 1 ⇐ n ⇐ pagesize, Unicode
Sybase ASA	NCHAR(n), 1 ⇐ n ⇐ 8191, Unicode - UTF-8
Informix	NCHAR(n), 1 ⇐ n ⇐ 32767, database character set
Teradata	CHAR(n), 1 ⇐ n ⇐ 64000/charsize
Interbase/Firebird	NCHAR(n), 1 ⇐ n ⇐ 32767, single-byte ISO8859_1 (Latin 1); CHAR(n), 1 ⇐ n ⇐ 32767, with CHARACTER SET UTF-8
Ingres	NCHAR(n), 1 ⇐ n ⇐ 16000, Unicode - UTF-8

Data Types
Fixed-length Character Data	CHAR(n)
Variable-length Character Data	VARCHAR(n)	NVARCHAR(n)

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