Oracle-L: RE: Need to have 2 Columns of Size 3000 in 1 Table to Store Chara

From: Nirmal Kumar Muthu Kumaran <NIRMALK_at_qtel.com.qa>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 08:23:25 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0049DD64.20020722082325@fatcity.com>

create table t1 (a varchar2(4000));

hope that this will work oracle 8 and above.

rgds,
nirmal

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Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 6:48 PM
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Qs What Datatypes Can be Used for 2 Columns of Size 3000 in 1 Table to Store Character Data ?

NOTE - 2 Columns of LONG Datatype are NOT Allowed in 1 Table

			create table test10 (test1 long,test2 long);
			create table test10 (test1 long,test2 long)
			                                *
			ERROR at line 1:
			ORA-01754: a table may contain only one column of

type LONG

Qs Also please tell any Limitations , Disadvantages when using any Substitute
Advised Datatype ?

Thanks

P.S. Any Disadvantages with using CLOB ?

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