"John Calder" <john_at_pixieware.com> wrote in message
news:a9oq2r$fqq$1_at_lust.ihug.co.nz...
> Most promising, but I'll need to do some more experimentation
> is the PL/SQL language with at first look appears a lot nicer than
> other stored procedure languages I have worked with. Some
> question marks on how it is going to handle long strings for
> me . CLOB variables it seems from my reading so far but I need
> to try doing some stuff to make sense of the documentation on that.
the limit on a PL/SQL varchar variable is 32767 bytes. (which may or may not
buy you anything). However if you are using CLOB columns in the db then
DBMS_LOB which is a supplied package is what you need to delve into.
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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Received on Fri Apr 19 2002 - 10:36:50 CDT
