Subject Re: [firebird-support] Re: Large text fields
Author Eugen Stoianovici
Adam wrote:
> --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Eugen Stoianovici
> <eugen.stoianovici@...> wrote:
>
>> Alan McDonald wrote:
>>
>>>> Is there a text field defined for firebird?
>>>> I need to store large text files (about 10-20k of text)...must i use
>>>> blob fields or is there an other way?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> blob is the way.. is there a problem with that?
>>> Alan
>>>
>>>
>> Blob is ok...it's just that with text i could have done some search in
>> it before storing it on a local drive.
>>
>
> BLOB SUB_TYPE TEXT is equivalent to the text fields in other RDBMS.
> You can use =, Like, Containing etc with BLOB SUB_TYPE TEXT.
>
> Adam
:) Thank you.


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