Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!bionet!ames!lll-lcc!unisoft!mtxinu!sybase!dopey!ramiro 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. Lines: 12 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.