>Looking for recommendations ....
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>The program used here is a VFP front end on an Oracle 9i backend, and I recently ran into a hiccup updating some data in our database.
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>The contact email address for one client had increased beyond the constraints of the old field which was defined as VARCHAR 40.
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>Because email address lengths are one the rise, what length is generally recommended?

I use memo fields for email addresses.

Tamar