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Aibek Musaev (abbey@cc.gatech.edu)
Sun, 2 Nov 1997 17:05:16 -0500 

From: "Aibek Musaev" <abbey@cc.gatech.edu>
Subject: TEXT type
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 17:05:16 -0500
Message-ID: <01bce7db$66ad0380$30403d80@r64h48.res.gatech.edu>

1) What is the largest length of a variable of type TEXT?

In my database I need to store essays written by students. Essays can
be any size - from 0 bytes to several kilobytes. However, I
discovered that the largest length of a variable of type TEXT is
4,723. Is it really so? I got this number by importing into the
database ascii files of different length. Perhaps, this number is for
my system only.

2) How can I store information worth of more then 4kb then?

Thanks in advance,
Aibek.

~~~
Aibek M. Musaev
Georgia Tech, Atlanta