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Hi Dan,

In InstantDB TEXT is an alias for LONGCHAR.  MS Access uses Text for
VARCHAR to appear more user friendly, but it's usually used for long
text (if at all).  I wouldn't be surprised if Access would accept
VARCHAR as an alias for TEXT in a SQL statement (This should just be in
create or alter table statements).  Otherwise, you're going to have to
generate SQL based on the database type in your code.

Thom

Dan Reese wrote:
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> My company is doing a contract project where the client is very familiar
> with MS Access.  We'd like to recommend InstantDB as an alternative that, in
> our tests, is faster.  In order for us to write cross-database SQL
> statements for JDBC, we need for the TEXT data-type (from Access) to be an
> alias for VARCHAR.  Will you add that for us?  Or is there another way that
> anyone is familiar with?
> 
> Thanks for any assistance.
> Dan Reese
> AP Software
> 
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