> thanks ... i take that is subtype 1 ... what is segment size?

You can use "text" instead of "1".

Leave segment size to it's default, it hardly has a meaning these days.

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> >>> "Martijn Tonies" <m.tonies@...> 2008-10-21 14:50 >>>
> Hi,
>
> > Which data type can I use for variable data size ... I need to store
> > quite large text data in the database.
>
> BLOB subtype TEXT