Oracle Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition by Mark Gurry and Peter Corrigan Here are the changes that were made for the 9/97 reprint: {24} last bullet now reads: * LOB columns (BLOB, CLOB, NCLOB, and BFILE) can be as large as 4 gigabytes. You can specify the BLOB and CLOB columns in a separate tablespace from the rest of the table. BFILE columns are stored in a file external to the database. {653} line 4: "99" changed to "1" (942) Colophon, para. -2: added the following sentences: "Whenever possible, our books use RepKover, a durable and flexible lay-flat binding. If the page count exceed RepKover's limit, perfect binding is used."