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From: ramiro@dopey.sybase.com (Ramiro Acha)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: LONG data type in Oracle
Summary: Even LONGER in SYBASE
Keywords: LONG, data types, Oracle, Sybase
Message-ID: <6324@sybase.sybase.com>
Date: 28 Sep 89 00:12:13 GMT
References: <203@fjcp60.GOV>
Sender: news@sybase.sybase.com
Reply-To: ramiro@dopey.UUCP (Ramiro Acha)
Followup-To: comp.databases
Organization: Sybase, Inc.
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In article <203@fjcp60.GOV> brinkema@fjcnet.GOV (John R. Brinkema) writes:
>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)?
>
Yes. Sybase SQL Server 4.0, the current production version, supports TEXT and
IMAGE data types, which can hold 2^31 bytes of data. That's right, that's
billions of bytes...
>						tia. jb.