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What is the difference between CHAR and VARCHAR2? If
VARCHAR2 serves the uses of CHAR why CHAR is still used and
not been discarded yet?

Answer Posted / pradeep

in char it allocates the memory space as static where as in
varchar2 it allocates the memory space as dynamic.

Another difference is accessing a variable declared as char
is faster than, accessing a varchar2. So CHAR is still used

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