Re: LONG datatypes - what's the trick?

>>But you can't insert or update them at all

Ummm.... Then I guess I'm missing the point of them existing at all? It's not that I think Larry Ellison is a stupid man, but to spend good money to develop a datatype that can't be inserted or updated from standard SQL???

Paul Horan

Daniel Clamage wrote in message <7bnj1b$iae$1_at_remarQ.com>...
>You can use dbms_sql to get a long out of a column and into a set of
>varchar2 (such as a PL/SQL table of varchar2). You can also determine the
>length of the long with dbms_sql. But you can't insert or update them at
>all, except from C or COBOL.
>
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>- Dan Clamage
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>If you haven't crashed the Server,
>you haven't been trying hard enough.
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Received on Fri Mar 05 1999 - 08:34:53 CST