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 ...

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 ...