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Default datatype for text in views

User_RC7ZMOct 19 2021

When I create a view with hard-coded fixed length text, Oracle automatically views it as CHAR datatype. The only way to change it to VARCHAR2 is explicitly CAST it. Is that assumption true? Is there a database level setting that will always use VARCHAR2 for all text instead?

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cormaco

If you install Virtualbox on your MacBook, you can use this appliance to get an Oracle database:
Developer Day - Hands-on Database Application Development (oracle.com)

Billy Verreynne

Mac was supported years ago with 10g. Think that even RAC support was planned. (https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/install.102/b25286.pdf)
As I heard things went south between Oracle and Apple, and the support for Mac was discontinued.

L. Fernigrini

There are no Mac version for Oracle Databases, but as cormaco mentioned you can easily use VirtualBox to have a VM with Linux (you can use Oracle Linux) and install Oracle 18c XE on it.
Or you can use the VM he already pointed, it has Oracle 19c pre installed, and you can add 18c XE if you need (if you just want to test or do some Proof of Concept, then using the 19c should be OK, if you want to use it for commercial / production then you need either a license or to use the free XE edition).

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