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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.server -> Re: Acess Memo Fields to Oracle 8 Conversion
On Thu, 01 Jul 1999 18:31:00 GMT, ddlang_at_my-deja.com wrote:
>We are upsizing an Access 95 database to Oracle 8.
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>- If LONG is used, we need a way to read changes to the field to record
>changes and log them to history trail tables.
If you are using Oracle8 or 8i, I would recommend looking at the CLOB data type. Oracle is discouraging the use of LONG in favour of the newer LOB types. I think CLOB has a 2-gig limit. Not sure how you would implement your audit trail requirements. You could do something with triggers, but I'm assuming that you don't want to have to log a copy of the entire field when only part of it changes. Or is that not an issue?
Jonathan Gennick
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