Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!dev!jkrueger From: jkrueger@dev.dtic.dla.mil (Jonathan Krueger) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: variable record length Message-ID: <3603@dev.dtic.dla.mil> Date: 5 Feb 90 03:30:51 GMT References: Distribution: usa Organization: Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC), Alexandria VA Lines: 16 mfriedma@oracle.com (Michael Friedman) writes: >Mind telling me what I could do with variable length columns that I >can't do with regular Oracle columns? Write code that need not be aware of length limits for data values. Said code implements applications that can insert and update without being able to overflow column limits. As a practical matter, if maxima are large it doesn't make any difference. As a practical matter, Oracle's maxima are not large. -- Jon -- Jonathan Krueger jkrueger.dtic.dla.mil uunet!dgis!jkrueger Isn't it interesting that the first thing you do with your color bitmapped window system on a network is emulate an ASR33?