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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.
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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.