On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 17:12:39 +0100 "NYIMI Jose (BMB)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 4:58 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: OLDB - ODBC > > > Does this belong in the DBI list? Sorry if the answer is yes. No reason not. > We have a problem. We run Perl for Window NT. We use Perl to read > ASCII Files, and write the information to a Database. > > Some of these fields are longer than 32,000 characters long. We just > had > one that was 86,000 characters long. > The problem we have is that our driver is limited. It can't handle > 86,000 characters. We needed to trim the length to 32,000 because we > often had ASCII characters that were bigger than the normal size. We > settled on 32,000. But now the department wants to get the whole record. > > The database can definitely hold that big of a variable. The problem is > getting there with the limits of the driver that we are using. > The program with ODBC well and has been working for over a year. This > issue has just come up. > > Is there an extension in ODBC that will be able to handle 200,000 bytes > in one shot. Or perhaps another extension that is similar to OLDB? > > The Databse is: Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.5.0.0 - > Production > PL/SQL Release 8.1.5.0.0 - Production > TNS for 32-bit Windows: Version 8.1.5.0.0 - Production If it's an Oracle database, is there a reason you can't use DBD::Oracle? You should be able to insert at least that much into LONGs and CLOBs using placeholders under DBD::Oracle. You might still be able to do it with ODBC if you use placeholders and bind_param( ..., DBI::SQL_LONGVARCHAR ). Look at "Handling BLOB / LONG / Memo Fields" in the DBI manual. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
