Re: More than 100 Chr$ in UPDATE
Posted in 1996
John H. Frantz — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)
Prenom Nom wrote:
>
> Hi !
>
> I'm a beginner with informix SQL, and I would like to know how to write a long
> text (more than 100 caracters) in UPRDATE or INSERT function ?
>
> Thanks a lot for reply ASAP.
>
> Bye,
>
> Lydie (Paris, France)
You could try something like:
insert into mytable
select value1,"this is a very very long text"
||" line that must be inserted using the special concatenation"
||" symbol",value3
from systables where tabid=1;
This seems to work in dbaccess.
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