LONG or VARCHAR2(2000)

From: Eric Fang <eric_fang_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 19:46:16 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <10492.105299@fatcity.com>

we decide to use a field to store the URL in the database, it could be very long but most of them less that 2k characters. But some developers prefer to use VARCHAR2(2000). What's the advantage of using LONG v.s VARCHAR2(2000) or VARCHAR@(2000) v.s LONG?

Any opinion?
Thanks.

Eric Fang

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