Re: Why all the max length constraints?
Date: 31 May 2006 02:34:28 -0700
Message-ID: <1149068068.812125.271120_at_h76g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
David Cressey wrote:
> Excuse me, but I've never used the CLOB data type, so my memory of it is
> limited. Isn't there some kind of limitation on CLOBs such that you can't
> use them in the "where" clause, or something like that? If that's the
> case, isn't it fair to treat CLOB as a "non relational Oracle extension"?
> Also, wasn't Dawn's OP about whether there is anything about the RM that
> would lead implementors to impose such a restriction? That's slightly
> different from asking whether there is something about SQL that would lead
> to the same thing.
Yes, but in the text you quoted here I was responding to Dawn's latest post (which you also quoted) which *was* specifically about SQL. Received on Wed May 31 2006 - 11:34:28 CEST