Compatibility

SQL Anywhere (SA) can store large objects (up to a 2GB maximum length) in columns of data type LONG VARCHAR or LONG BINARY. The support of these data types by SQL Anywhere is SQL92 compliant. SQL Anywhere does not support the BYTE_LENGTH64, BYTE_SUBSTR64, BFILE, BIT_LENGTH, OCTET_LENGTH, CHAR_LENGTH64, and SUBSTRING64 functions.

Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) can store large textual objects (up to a 2GB maximum length) and large binary objects (up to a 2GB maximum length) in columns of data type TEXT or IMAGE, respectively. The support of these data types by Adaptive Server Enterprise is SQL92 compliant.