For more information on these data types, see your Oracle Rdb documentation. LONG VARCHAR varying-length column for character string data, which has 16,383 ... For example, an Oracle Rdb SQL date ...

specifies a varying-length column for character string data ... Values in a column of this type can range from approximately -7.2E+75 through 7.2E+75. Even though the DB2 numeric columns have these ...