Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!cognos!nigelc
From: nigelc@cognos.UUCP (Nigel Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Oracle to have text/memo data types, or blob soon???
Keywords: oracle blob
Message-ID: <9165@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 30 Dec 90 22:31:24 GMT
References: <19615@netcom.UUCP>
Reply-To: nigelc@cognos.UUCP (Nigel Campbell)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <19615@netcom.UUCP> lpendley@netcom.UUCP (Lou Pendley) writes:
>I have settled on Oracle as a development platform, and am curious if
>they will soon, within the next 2 years, come out with a data type of 
>memo/text that could contain a variable number of lines/characters, and
>if there will ever be a blob: binary large object.
>I currently am hopefully awaiting these new enhancements to Oracle.
>by the way, I don't care about what Ingres, Informix, Sybase, or any others
>are doing.  I'm a loyal Oracle fan.

** NOT a flame (honest) **

You must be loyal if you want the function but are willing to wait up
to two years for a feature that many commercial systems have been supporting
in various degrees ! You may not care directly about Interbase,Rdb,Ingres
et al but as a result these vendors you may see improvements in the 
Oracle tools to help them compete in various sales cycles .

Oh yes .. I am a loyal Maple Leafs fan

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