Okay, so our database is being updated, and 8i stores American ascii characters, and 9i uses Unicode ... I'm by no means the Oracle maven, I'm just part of the project group.

You didn't say which SQL. If MSSQL, there is a small performance ... If you're using OracleDB, you should pretty much never user CHAR. Oracle DB stores them and VARCHAR the same way with the ...

These capabilities, dubbed AI Vector Search, included a new vector data type, vector indexes, and vector search SQL operators that enable the Oracle Database to store the semantic content of ...