Re: VARCHAR values are always the length of the field

[Mikko Kurki-Suonio]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Edson Carlos Ericksson Richter wrote:

> But, how can I configure some Strings to VARCHAR(25) and others to
> VARCHAR(100) in the ejb-jar.xml???

Basically, you can't.

BUT: You can hand-create the appropriate tables with the appropriate
column types before deployment (or, depending on RDBMS capabilities, alter
them afterwards). As I understand it, the database schema mapping is only
really used during table autocreation.

//Mikko