DB design document

[Christophe Guychard]

> 
> You can't avoid having a limit on text fields, but you can make them
> very large.

> So we will use varchar fields, and make them fairly large. At your
> leisure, please review my schema and suggest maximum data sizes.

To store unlimited (un-indexed, but who needs to index comments?) text
objects, Oracle provides the CLOB (Character Large Objects).
I don't know for others, but at least DB2, SQL-Server support binary objects.

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