From: Tim Witort <trwNOSPAM@NOSPAMmedicalert.org>
Subject: Re: newbie PL/SQL questions
Date: 1997/09/09
Message-ID: <3415953F.702F@NOSPAMmedicalert.org>#1/1
References: <341544cb.102936965@129.88.30.1>
Reply-To: trwNOSPAM@NOSPAMmedicalert.org
Organization: Netcom
X-NETCOM-Date: Tue Sep 09  1:33:03 PM CDT 1997
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.misc



Romuald Jouffrey wrote:
> 
> Hi, I got 2 questions in
> 
> I would like to receive and record a file, but varchar2 is limited to
> 2000 chars long. What can be done ?

In PL/SQL, a VARCHAR2 can hold up to 32K characters.  If
that is not enough, then your only option is to use multiple
VARCHAR2s.  In PL/SQL, even a LONG is limited to 32K, so
if 32K is not enough...

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