August 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1472 pages
38h
English

In place of LONG and LONG RAW, you can use the LOB datatypes (BLOB, CLOB, NCLOB, and BFILE) for storage of long data. Although Oracle still allows you to create LONG and LONG RAW columns, Oracle recommends that you create new columns using the LOB datatypes and that you convert existing LONG and LONG RAW columns to CLOB or BLOB columns, respectively. If you use one of these datatypes to store large objects (LOBs), you can take advantage of new capabilities for viewing and manipulating the data. You can also use Oracle Text (see Chapter 27) to perform text searches on CLOB data.
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