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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.
-- Daniel Morgan http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/oad/oad_crs.asp http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/aoa/aoa_crs.asp damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)Received on Mon Jan 12 2004 - 20:22:35 CST