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Re: Long columns obsolete

From: Burt Peltier <burttemp1ReMoVeThIs_at_bellsouth.net>
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 11:31:22 -0600
Message-ID: <MqJAb.18941$mG.3463@bignews5.bellsouth.net>


If you read the entire post, you would see that no one was saying 32768 (or 32787) was the maximum.

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"Mark C. Stock" <mcstockX_at_Xenquery .com> wrote in message
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>
> | Where does your 32787 come from - typo, I presume?
> |
>
> Apparently a typo, but not 32768 either...
>
> PL/SQL User's Guide, Fundamentals chapter:
>
> You use the VARCHAR2 datatype to store variable-length character data. How
> the
> data is represented internally depends on the database character set. The
> VARCHAR2
> datatype takes a required parameter that specifies a maximum size up to
> 32767
> bytes.
>
> -- mcs
>
>
Received on Sun Dec 07 2003 - 11:31:22 CST

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