It's been a while since I used Oracle, but as I recall there is a different field type other than VarChar2 that you need to use for memo fields. Of course, I foget the field type now, but one other glitch that I recall is that you could only have one of these per table.

>Hi,
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>We have written a client / server app using SPT. The back-end can be Visual FoxPro, Oracle or SQL Server.
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>We have a problem in saving memo fields. If a small amount of data is placed in a memo field then everything is ok. However, a large amount of data in any memo field causes our tableupdates to fail for Oracle or SQL Server. Visual FoxPro works fine, regardless.
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>The app is written in VFP 6 / SP3. We are using Oracle 7.5 and SQL Server 6.5.
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>The data type for the memo fields is as follows:
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>VFP: Memo
>SQL Server: Text
>Oracle: VarChar2(2000)
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>Can anyone help us out on this ?
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>Best.
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>Matt McQueen