OraMaxSize Property

See Also

Applies To

OraField

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
Data Type

Long Integer