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Differences between MySQL character data types

We have an XML schema defining documents that contain paragraphs of text collected from Web-based survey response forms, and we want to store them in a MySQL database. MySQL provides three data types ...
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How to Create a CLOB in Oracle

Oracle's namesake database management system has a data type called a CLOB, or Character Large OBject. Though the standard character data type, called CHAR, has a size limit of 2,000 characters, you ...
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ORACLE7 Server Data Types

Note: The SAS/ACCESS Interface to ORACLE does not support the following ORACLE data types: MLSLABEL and ROWID. SAS/ACCESS provides an error message when it attempts ...
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Converting a Character column to a Numeric column

For additional information on changing columns from character to numeric and vice versa, refer to the PUT and INPUT functions and formats and informats in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary. The ...
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Differences between MySQL character data types; The costs of data across a WAN

* Dr. Internet columnist Steve Blass discusses the differences between MySQL character data types * Help Desk columnist Ron Nutter discusses the costs of data across a WAN ...