HP Neoview Data Types - NVARCHAR

Versions: HP Neoview 2.4, 2.3 and 2.2

HP Neoview - NVARCHAR
Syntax	NVARCHAR(n)
Data	Variable-length character data in Unicode (UCS-2) or ISO88591 (Latin1) character set
Parameters	n is the maximum number of characters, mandatory
Range	1 ⇐ n ⇐ (32708 - size of other columns)
Default	Unicode - UCS-2
Padding	Not padded with spaces to n
Storage Size	n*charsize
Synonyms	NATIONAL CHARACTER VARYING, NATIONAL CHAR VARYING, NCHAR VARYING
Standards	ANSI SQL

HP Neoview NCHAR - Equivalents in Other Databases

Database	Data Type and Conversion
Oracle	NVARCHAR2(n), 1 ⇐ n ⇐ 4000/charsize	NCLOB, 4G
SQL Server	NVARCHAR(n \| max), 1 ⇐ n ⇐ 8000, 2G if max is specified
MySQL	NVARCHAR(n), 1 ⇐ n ⇐ 21845, Unicode - UTF-8	LONGTEXT, 4G
PostgreSQL	VARCHAR(n), 1 ⇐ n ⇐ 1G
Sybase ASE	NVARCHAR(n), 1 ⇐ n ⇐ pagesize/@@ncharsize (page size is 2K, 4K, 8K or 16K)	UNIVARCHAR(n), 1 ⇐ n ⇐ pagesize/@@unicharsize, Unicode
Informix	NVARCHAR(n,r), 1 ⇐ n ⇐ 255	LVARCHAR(n), 1 ⇐ n ⇐ 32739
Ingres	NVARCHAR(n), 1 ⇐ n ⇐ 16000, Unicode - UTF-8

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

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