RE: LONG or VARCHAR2(2000)

From: Thomas L. Harleman <tharleman_at_iquest.net>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 01:42:38 -0500
Message-Id: <10493.105312@fatcity.com>

Look in your Oracle SQL documentation on the restrictions in using LONG. You can not search the values stored in LONG using SUBSTR. In the past when I needed to use LONG, I stored it in a separate table with a 1:1 FK to its parent table because of it's effect on the table that contains the LONG column.

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From: root_at_fatcity.com [mailto:root_at_fatcity.com]On Behalf Of Eric Fang Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 10:54 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: LONG or VARCHAR2(2000)

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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