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character string
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character string

A group of alphanumeric characters. Contrast with numeric data.



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Google no longer need keyword repetition to understand what you are writing about: they have the LSI algorithm now, that will determine the meaning of your page from the character strings it contains.
It has fixed-length character strings, format-free I/O, and arrays with lower bounds.
Character-type is the natural choice for these columns, since you can convert character strings to numbers and dates, but numbers and dates are not so flexible.
 
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