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From: david@green1.demon.co.uk (David Greensmith)
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.misc
Subject: Re: HELP PLEASE! (A real newbie)
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1998 03:47:15 GMT
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Peter Giannopoulos <petergi@generation.net> wrote:

>I need to get SQLLOader to stuff lots of text into some field. I don't
>know what datatype to use. Varchar2 just can't handle the (varying)
>amouny of text.
>
>Can anyone help me?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
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If your text is less than 2000 characters in length, and doesn't
contain quites ", then use the quotes " to delimit the text.  This
should solve the problem for you.



I hope this helps,

David
David Greensmith :-)
(david@green1.demon.co.uk)