Re: How to initialize varchar2 of infinite length

On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 12:44:42 PM UTC-8, Mladen Gogala wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 22:40:02 +1100, Noons wrote:
>
> > On 28/01/2015 2:21 AM, Mladen Gogala wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Even CLOB is not infinite, it is at most 2G.
> >
> > According to the doc I mentioned, it's 8 TB to 128 TB depending on
> > blocksize. Latest releases, mind you.
>
> What would you do to a guy who loaded an 8TB LOB into your database? I
> wouldn't be too happy with such turn of events. Some scenes from the
> "Dirty Harry" movies come to my mind....
>
>
> >
> >> There is no such thing as infinity.
> >
> > Indeed.
>
> Unless you're Chuck Norris. He counted to infinity and back. Twice.
>

http://www.schneierfacts.com/facts/1063

jg

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