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LONG data type limitations

968752Oct 20 2012 — edited Oct 20 2012

I was a little surprised to know that LONG is like VARCHAR2 but supports upto 2GB.

I would like to know why LONG is not numeric?

Also why the limitation of only 1 LONG type column though it is variable length.

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