RE: some problems about sapdb's long(varchar) column

[Elke Zabach]

pawa wrote:

> Hi everyone :
> 
> I am newbie to sapdb ,there are some problems when i use it.
> 
> Some of my table in sapdb have long(varchar) cloumns ,how can 
> i get this column lenth or use sonm compare clauses? Just 
> like : select * from sometable where longcolumn lik 
> '%searchwords%' ... ect .
> 
> When i check out the documention , some explain is :
> ------------------------
> A LONG column is a data type that contains a sequence of 
> characters of any length to which no functions can be applied.
> -----------------------
> 
> It is really ?
> 
> It's a big problem for me , thanks for your helping !

Sorry, but this is really:
no function, no comparison for LONG-columns.

Elke
SAP Labs Berlin