Re: Any idea for field w/ greater than 255 bytes?

From: <70223.114_at_compuserve.com>
Date: 1995/08/20
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thorn_at_w3eax.umd.edu (Greg KD3SU) wrote:

>I am trying to have one column for a comment (string) in a table
>that is greater than 255. I tried to use LONG but it does
>not work. The book says a LONG can hold up to 2 gigabytes of
>info. Anyone have any ideas? The error I get says :
 

>Field in data file exceeded maximum specified length
 

>Is there another datatype that I might be able use that I'm not
>aware of?
 

>Thanks, Greg

Try varchar2(2000)
Lewis Received on Sun Aug 20 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST

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