On 28-6-2012 13:46, the_a_rioch wrote:

>> No the SQL standard doesn't say anything about identifier lengths.
>> However Oracle has the same limitation for identifier lengths as Firebird.
>
> Oracle also told to have limitation on max string field length
> http://lists.xwiki.org/pipermail/devs/2005-April/024490.html

Oracle has some more specific size limits when it comes to handling
VARCHARs (I believe around 4K characters depending on the configuration).

However Firebird BLOB SUB_TYPE 1 has no such limitations, and Jaybird
handles them transparently for you.

Mark
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