LENGTH of VARCHAR2

From: Jan Pruner <jan_at_pruner.cz>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 17:49:13 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00428866.20020313174913@fatcity.com>

What is the highest length of VARCHAR2 variable in 8.1.7? Is it 4000 bytes?

I'm using dynamic SQL - like OPEN cursor FOR sqlstr . sqlstr is variable of type VARCHAR2(4000) . If the length of select statement in sqlstr is bigger than cca 2000, sqlstr is null.

What's up???

JP
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