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Re: URGENT HELP REQUIRED - long data types not being returned correctly

From: Michael Gast <mig-sm_at_web.de>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:01:14 +0200
Message-ID: <40d14fdd$0$279$4d4ebb8e@read.news.de.uu.net>


Hi,

Edwinah63 schrieb:
> Hi Jim,
>
> have checked the length of the notes field using a quick query in
> Access ;-)
>
> the longest is about 15,000 chars. presuming each character is a
> byte, then we are returning about 15k back - below the limit of 32 k.
> or am i missing something here???

Just two ideas:
What character set do you use in your database? Oracle also supports multibyte character sets. In this case your presumption could be wrong.

Did you try to use the dataype LOB instead of LONG? Does the problem persist in this case?

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Received on Thu Jun 17 2004 - 03:01:14 CDT

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