Re: Is datatype long supported in future releases of Oracle

From: <MarkP28665_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 15 Oct 2002 13:51:27 GMT
Message-ID: <aoh6gv$a4i$1@news.netmar.com>

In article <6e35f472.0210150355.3b44a1f0_at_posting.google.com>, Erik Greuter <e.greuter_at_mproof.nl> writes:
>Their is a rumour going on that Oracle is dropping the long datatype
>in next releases of their DBMS (Or has already done so!) Is this true?

In the Oracle 8 Concepts manual Oracle said that the long data type was provided only for backward compatability. It still exists in 8.1 and 9.0. I do not know about the upcoming version 10, but I would expect it to go away at some point so you should probably use LOB's in any new objects.

HTH -- Mark D Powell --

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Received on Tue Oct 15 2002 - 08:51:27 CDT