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Re: [stellation-res] Oracle backend!

 --- Florin Iucha <florin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 09:31:38AM -0400, Mark C. Chu-Carroll wrote:
> > On Wednesday 24 July 2002 05:48 am, Ringo De Smet wrote:
> > > 1) For the long string, I have used Oracle's VARCHAR(2000). If my
> > > colleague has informed me well, this seems to be the largest size
> > > possible. In the DB2 version, it was put on 16000, so I will have
> > > to look into this further.
> > 
> > They really don't support a varchar longer that 2K?
> 
> Yes, they do. It's called VARCHAR2. From [1]
>    "The VARCHAR2 datatype takes a required parameter that specifies a
>    maximum size up to 32767 bytes."
> 
> I have never user VARCHAR with Oracle ;)

Did I specify VARCHAR? Than it's just a typo in my mail. In my code
(see patch), I specified VARCHAR2(16000), but this failed on Oracle 8i.

>   1.
>
http://otn.oracle.com/docs/products/oracle9i/doc_library/release2/appdev.920/a96624/03_types.htm#10805

This is a URL for Oracle 9i. Has the VARCHAR2 size changed between 8i
and 9i?

Ringo

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