What is the maximum length of a table name in Oracle?

What are the maximum length of a table name and column name in Oracle?


In Oracle 12.2 and above the maximum object name length is 128 bytes.

In Oracle 12.1 and below the maximum object name length is 30 bytes.


Teach a man to fish

Notice the data-type and size

>describe all_tab_columns

VIEW all_tab_columns

Name                                      Null?    Type                        
 ----------------------------------------- -------- ----------------------------
 OWNER                                     NOT NULL VARCHAR2(30)                
 TABLE_NAME                                NOT NULL VARCHAR2(30)                
 COLUMN_NAME                               NOT NULL VARCHAR2(30)                
 DATA_TYPE                                          VARCHAR2(106)               
 DATA_TYPE_MOD                                      VARCHAR2(3)                 
 DATA_TYPE_OWNER                                    VARCHAR2(30)                
 DATA_LENGTH                               NOT NULL NUMBER                      
 DATA_PRECISION                                     NUMBER                      
 DATA_SCALE                                         NUMBER                      
 NULLABLE                                           VARCHAR2(1)                 
 COLUMN_ID                                          NUMBER                      
 DEFAULT_LENGTH                                     NUMBER                      
 DATA_DEFAULT                                       LONG                        
 NUM_DISTINCT                                       NUMBER                      
 LOW_VALUE                                          RAW(32)                     
 HIGH_VALUE                                         RAW(32)                     
 DENSITY                                            NUMBER                      
 NUM_NULLS                                          NUMBER                      
 NUM_BUCKETS                                        NUMBER                      
 LAST_ANALYZED                                      DATE                        
 SAMPLE_SIZE                                        NUMBER                      
 CHARACTER_SET_NAME                                 VARCHAR2(44)                
 CHAR_COL_DECL_LENGTH                               NUMBER                      
 GLOBAL_STATS                                       VARCHAR2(3)                 
 USER_STATS                                         VARCHAR2(3)                 
 AVG_COL_LEN                                        NUMBER                      
 CHAR_LENGTH                                        NUMBER                      
 CHAR_USED                                          VARCHAR2(1)                 
 V80_FMT_IMAGE                                      VARCHAR2(3)                 
 DATA_UPGRADED                                      VARCHAR2(3)                 
 HISTOGRAM                                          VARCHAR2(15)                

DESCRIBE all_tab_columns

will show a TABLE_NAME VARCHAR2(30)

Note VARCHAR2(30) means a 30 byte limitation, not a 30 character limitation, and therefore may be different if your database is configured/setup to use a multibyte character set.

Mike