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Equivalent of mysql's TEXT field type in Firebird?

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Equivalent of mysql's TEXT field type in Firebird?
Firebird doesn't have a TEXT field type? Then what field type will be able to accept large amounts of text with unknown size?

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Firebird doesn't have a TEXT field type? Then what field type will be able to accept large amounts of text with unknown size?

Look at the docs under BLOB column types. You are looking for 'blob sub type 1'...
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char and varchar upto 32000 bytes (characters in ASCII) or blobs
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