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From: Mercadante, Thomas F <NDATFM_at_labor.state.ny.us>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 05:23:23 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004C1455.20020828052323@fatcity.com>

Sankar,

Use Varchar2 for storage of character data up to 4000 characters in length.

Never use LONG datatypes.

Use CLOBS for characters data > 4000 bytes up to 4Gig in length.

I'm not sure why anyone would use NCLOBS.

Hope this helps

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

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Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 8:19 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Hi,

I would like to know which datatype is best to use for storing text data of around 50 lines.The data is basically a variable length user feedback.I am in confusion whether to go for VARCHAR2 or LONG type. Also in CLOB and NCLOB, can somebody clarify me about "CLOBS store single-byte character set data and NCLOBs store fixed-width and varying-width multibyte national chararcter set data(NCHAR data)". Which one is the best to use among VARCHAR2,LONG,CLOB,NCLOB for my requirement

Thanks & Regards,
Sankar  

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