[storm] Should storm have separate String and Blob datatypes?

[Brad Allen]

This issue came up because our app only supports ASCII strings, not
unicode. Currently we use the RawStr property for attributes mapped to
SQL Server VARCHAR fields, which has been working fine for us with the
MS SQL backend.

Howevever, we're working toward Oracle compatibility now for our app
(while still continuing MS SQL support), and we're finding that RawStr
isn't appropriate for VARCHAR since RawStr needs to be hexified to
support BLOB. We're discussing creating an Ascii property to use for
mapping to VARCHAR.

Is that the best approach, or does anyone have a different recommendation?

Thanks!

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Brad Allen
ZeOmega
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