Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!fjcp60!brinkema From: brinkema@fjcnet.GOV (John R. Brinkema) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: LONG data type in Oracle Keywords: LONG, data types, Oracle Message-ID: <203@fjcp60.GOV> Date: 27 Sep 89 04:10:11 GMT Organization: Federal Judicial Center, Washington, D.C. Lines: 10 Oracle has two data types LONG and LONG RAW, which are designed to hold very long byte strings (up to 64K; interpreted and uninterpreted, respectively). These data types are not in standard SQL. Are they (or the equivalent to store clots of strange bytes) available in any other relational/SQL database systems (eg. Sybase, Ingres, etc)? Long byte strings are *very* useful for misc. text and wierd things (relative to SQL anyway) like binary picture. tia. jb.