| Oracle® Objects for OLE Developer's Guide 10g Release 1 (10.1) Part Number B10118-01 |
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Applies To
Description
Returns the Oracle maximum column size as stored in the ORACLE data dictionary. Not available at design time and read-only at run time.
Usage
field_maxsize = orafield.OraMaxSize
Remarks
The return value is dependent on the Oracle Internal Data Type. The following values will be returned:
| Oracle Column Type |
Value |
|---|---|
| CHAR, VARCHAR2, RAW |
length of the column in the table |
| NUMBER |
22 (the internal length) |
| DATE |
7 (the internal length) |
| LONG, LONG RAW |
0 |
| ROWID |
(system dependent) |
| Functions returning internal data type 1 (such as TO_CHAR()) |
same as orafield.MaxDSize |
Long Integer