Frank van Bortel wrote:
> Daniel Morgan wrote:
>
>> Michael Hill wrote:
>>
>>> I had a guy ask me about Memo Fields in Oracle.
>>>
>>> Remember Memo fields are the text files stored outside a Microsoft
>>> Access DB when the user creates a memo field in their DB.
>>>
>>> The question was: "Does Oracle have Memo Field".
>>> The answer I gave was that Oracle had a character field that goes up to
>>> 2000 charcters nad then everything else could be stored in a blob.
>>>
>>> Did I tell him correctly?
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>
>> Strictly speakig no because Oracle would never limit itself to a
>> brain-dead architecture like MS Access.
>>
>> You don't mention version but for years now VARCHAR2 fields have held
>> 4000 bytes (not characters Mike) and CLOB fields will hold up to 4 GB.
>>
>> Either of these can be used to hold text information and either will
>> greatly outperform MS Access capabilities.
>>
> And asof 9iR2 4000 Characters. UTF and all.
4000 characters even if they characters are 3 bytes each? Are you sure?
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Received on Wed Jan 14 2004 - 15:57:24 CST
