The differences in processing efficiency between MySQL’s three character storage types should not have a big impact on processing times unless your data sets are extremely large. CHAR items ...

TEXT stores character data of variable length up to two gigabytes. SAS supports the TEXT data type provided in SYBASE; however, SAS only allows a maximum of 32,767 bytes of character data.

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 ...

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 ...

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