Unicode default forward data type mappings for NET8 data sources

The following table lists the default forward data type mapping for NET8 data sources when the federated database is a Unicode database.

Table 1. Unicode default forward data type mappings for NET8 data sources
UTF-8 Oracle
Data type Data type Length
CHAR CHAR 1 to 254 bytes
VARCHAR CHAR 255 to 2000 bytes
VARCHAR2 1 to 4000 bytes
DBCLOB NCLOB  
GRAPHIC NCHAR 1 to 127 characters
VARGRAPHIC NCHAR 128 to 1000 characters
NVARCHAR2 1 to 2000 characters