Find how may bytes or characters are occupied for Special Characters

Question

hi
i would like to know how many characers are occupied for the below Russian characters. i am using UTF8 character set.
because we need to transfer from one database to other for reporting
inthe base databse it is stored and the field max length is 200
and in reportiung database it is 80 char
but when i check the direct length with length function it is showing and it is not able to fit in to the reportign database tables. can you help he to find how many characters or bytes it occupies to store in databse for these characters
Actual Russina Characters. -------- ('óë. Ãåðîåâ-Ïàíôèëîâöåâ 22')

Answer 1

Hi,
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how many characters or bytes it occupies
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you can use dump function:
SQL> select dump(first_name)
2 from employees
3 where first_name = 'Peter';
DUMP(FIRST_NAME)
Typ=1 Len=5: 80,101,116,101,114
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base databse it is stored and the field max length is 200 and in reportiung database it is 80 char
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in the reporting database:
alter table your_table modify column_name VARCHAR2(200);
solved :)
Regards,
Tomek
Message was edited by:
Tomasz Tubis