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From: hthoene@doitcr.doit.sub.org (Hermann Thoene)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Oracle to have text/memo data types, or blob soon???
Keywords: oracle blob
Message-ID: <1554@doitcr.doit.sub.org>
Date: 3 Jan 91 23:14:18 GMT
References: <19615@netcom.UUCP>
Organization: DOITCR / FLOENZ1, Public Access Unix Munich/Germany
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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

In the actual version there ist a CHAR LONG which can hold up to 64 KBytes 
of Char data and LONG for up to 64 KBytes of binary data.

} if there will ever be a blob: binary large object.

In Version 7, coming end of this year, there will be blobs definitely !

} are doing.  I'm a loyal Oracle fan.

So am I. Good luck with Oracle

Hermann Thoene,  Muenchen,    Bavaria <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
hthoene@doiter.doit.sub.org