Find the length of the longest row in a column in oracle

Question

Does anybody know if there is a way to find what the length of the longest row in a column in Oracle?

Basically I need to get the length of the longest row and then

Answer 1

This should do what you want:

select max(length(MyColumn)) from MyTable;

Depending on what you are trying to achieve, you may also be insterested to know that you can output the data in the column plus exactly one space like this:

select rtrim(MyColumn)||' ' from MyTable;