Adaptive Server Anywhere (ASA) 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 ASA is SQL92 compliant. ASA 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 ASE is SQL92 compliant.