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Re: BIGINT support?

From: <Kenneth>
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 09:03:00 GMT
Message-ID: <405c079b.3037938@news.inet.tele.dk>


On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 15:14:21 +0100, Frank van Bortel <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net> wrote:

>Kenneth wrote:
>
>> I checked your URL which stated that a VARCHAR2 column can hold 4K of
>> chars. Not true, 4K = 4 * 1024 = 4096. A VARCHAR2 can only hold 4000
>> chars.
>>
>And not even that is true, it can hold up to 4000 byte of characters.

Yep. Which results in a maximum of 4000 chars with a single-byte charset. As I said.

>--
>
>Regards,
>Frank van Bortel
>
Received on Sat Mar 20 2004 - 03:03:00 CST

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