RE: LONG or VARCHAR2(2000)

From: <awaisb_at_paktel.com>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 08:40:56 +0500
Message-Id: <10493.105301@fatcity.com>

VARCHAR2 is new datatype and didnot allocate rest of the bytes other then enterd data. It is much batter then others.

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From: Eric Fang [mailto:eric_fang_at_yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 8:54 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: LONG or VARCHAR2(2000)

we decide to use a field to store the URL in the database, it could be very long but most of them less that 2k characters. But some developers prefer to use VARCHAR2(2000). What's the advantage of using LONG v.s VARCHAR2(2000) or VARCHAR@(2000) v.s LONG?

Any opinion?
Thanks.

Eric Fang

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Received on Tue May 09 2000 - 22:40:56 CDT