We have an XML schema defining documents that contain paragraphs of text collected from Web-based survey response forms, and we want to store them in a MySQL database. MySQL provides three data types ...

MySQL provides three data types for text storage elements: CHAR, VARCHAR and TEXT. Which is easiest and fastest to work with? A: The differences in processing efficiency between MySQL’s three ...

Note: The SAS/ACCESS Interface to ORACLE does not support the following ORACLE data types: MLSLABEL and ROWID. SAS/ACCESS provides an error message when it attempts ...

SQL is a widely-used programming language for computer databases in business. Frequently, software developers need to combine different kinds of data, such as integer and character fields, into a ...

Oracle's namesake database management system has a data type called a CLOB, or Character Large OBject. Though the standard character data type, called CHAR, has a size limit of 2,000 characters, you ...

For additional information on changing columns from character to numeric and vice versa, refer to the PUT and INPUT functions and formats and informats in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary. The ...