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Re: Memo Fields

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 18:22:35 -0800
Message-ID: <1073960479.112782@yasure>


Michael Hill wrote:

> I had a guy ask me about Memo Fields in Oracle.
>
> Remember Memo fields are the text files stored outside a Microsoft
> Access DB when the user creates a memo field in their DB.
>
> The question was: "Does Oracle have Memo Field".
> The answer I gave was that Oracle had a character field that goes up to
> 2000 charcters nad then everything else could be stored in a blob.
>
> Did I tell him correctly?
>
> Mike
>

Strictly speakig no because Oracle would never limit itself to a brain-dead architecture like MS Access.

You don't mention version but for years now VARCHAR2 fields have held 4000 bytes (not characters Mike) and CLOB fields will hold up to 4 GB.

Either of these can be used to hold text information and either will greatly outperform MS Access capabilities.

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Received on Mon Jan 12 2004 - 20:22:35 CST

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