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Oracle® Database SQL Language Reference
11g Release 2 (11.2)

Part Number E10592-02
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ROWIDTONCHAR

Syntax

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Description of the illustration rowidtonchar.gif

Purpose

ROWIDTONCHAR converts a rowid value to NVARCHAR2 data type. The result of this conversion is always in the national character set and is 18 characters long.

Examples

The following example converts a rowid value to an NVARCHAR2 string:

SELECT LENGTHB( ROWIDTONCHAR(ROWID) ) Length, ROWIDTONCHAR(ROWID) 
   FROM employees
   ORDER BY length; 

    LENGTH ROWIDTONCHAR(ROWID
---------- ------------------
        36 AAAL52AAFAAAABSABD
        36 AAAL52AAFAAAABSABV
. . .