A character string is a
data type that consists of a series of alphanumeric characters.Examples:
CHAR[ACTER], VARCHAR, LONG[VARCHAR], DATE, TIME, TIMESTAMPIn a
column definition, a code attribute can be entered for the data types CHAR[ACTER], VARCHAR and LONG[VARCHAR].The following comparison options exist for data types CHAR[ACTER] and VARCHAR:
Character strings with the same code attribute |
These character strings can be compared to each other. |
Character strings with the code attributes ASCII, EBCDIC and UNICODE |
These character strings are comparable with the character strings of code attributes EBCDIC, ASCII, and UNICODE, and with date, time and timestamp values. |