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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.misc -> Re: LONG datatypes - what's the trick?
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
http://www.telerama.com/~dclamage
If you haven't crashed the Server,
you haven't been trying hard enough.
Received on Sat Mar 06 1999 - 12:03:32 CST
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