Maximum length of String

Question

Hi All,
Do you know if there is a limit to the size of the string that can be submitted to Oracle database using OraOleDb?
I wish to run SQL statements that can be very long and I get an error when I submit these statements. I have tried using versions 10.1 of OraOleDb also. Is there a setting in the Connection or query submission that would allow users to submit long strings to Oracle?
Thanks

Answer 1

OK, someone's bound to have a rant at IBM or WebSphere here, but a quick knock-up class in WSAD:
public class StringTest {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          System.out.println(">> StringTest >>");
          StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
          for (int i=0; i<80000; i++) {
               sb.append("-");
          String s = sb.toString();
          System.out.println("My String is " + s.length() + " bytes long.");
          System.out.println(">> StringTest []");
}Gives me:
StringTest >>My String is 80000 bytes long.
StringTest []2 to the 16 is 65536, so that's certainly not the upper-limit for a String length in this case.
And anyway, 2^16 is 18 in Java.