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I have a requirement of converting BLOB to VARCHAR in DB2. I donot know how to do that, is there a way to do this.
Jan 9 '07 #1
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I have a requirement of converting BLOB to VARCHAR in DB2. I donot know how to do that, is there a way to do this.
This wouldn't always work right. A VARCHAR can only be up to 32672 bytes but a BLOB can go up to 2gigabytes. Why has it become neccessary to make the conversion and for what do you plan to use the created VARCHAR?
Jan 12 '07 #2

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