On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Ryan Ho wrote:
> What is the maximum size 'text' or 'varchar' can support before a BLOB has to be
> used. I need to store some small text files and I don't know how big is too big
> for a 'varchar'.
As I understand things, a "tuple" (all the elements in a row) plus a few
bytes for book-keeping have to be less than 8192 bytes. I haven't pushed
to see if my understanding is correct.
Gord
Matter Realisations http://www.materialisations.com/
Gordon Haverland, B.Sc. M.Eng. President
101 9504 182 St. NW Edmonton, AB, CA T5T 3A7
780/481-8019 ghaverla @ freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
