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From: dmg@Unify.Com (Dave Glende)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Variable length fields (Summary)
Keywords: RDBMS
Message-ID: <mk2wv8p@Unify.Com>
Date: 24 Jan 91 18:32:41 GMT
References: <1991Jan23.212828.28675@doe.utoronto.ca>
Organization: Unify Corporation, Sacramento, CA, USA
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In article <1991Jan23.212828.28675@doe.utoronto.ca> peter@doe.utoronto.ca (Peter Mielke) writes:
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>A few days i wrote:
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>> I'm looking for a relational database system that support fields of
>> variable length text. What sort of systems are there available and
>> what sort of hard limits are there to the text length?
>
>Well here is a summary of the replies i got:
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>    Name                Maximum size of variable length field
>
>    Progress            32K
>    Sybase              2147K
>    Informix            2 gigabytes
>    Spires              ?
>    Oracle              64K
>    Unify               ?

Sorry if I wasn't clear.  TEXT and BINARY fields in UNIFY can be up to
~2 GB in length.

>    KnowledgMan, 3.0    ?
>    Empress             2147K (the maximum value of int on the machine)
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