RE: CLOB datatype

From: Jack C. Applewhite <japplewhite_at_inetprofit.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 06:07:07 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.003C5D1E.20011115054536@fatcity.com>

Rick,

CLOBs been bery bery good to me. ;-) (8.1.6 on Win2k)

We collect 50,000 - 200,000 documents per day and store them in out-of-line CLOBs in a partitioned table. The CLOB column has an interMedia Text index on it, which allows us to query up to about 12 million documents with great performance.

CLOBs can be stored in separate segments from the "regular" data, allowing better storage and access control. CLOBs can be easily manipulated with the DBMS_LOB package. They suffer from none of the many problems caused by LONG columns.

They're GRRRRRREAT!

Jack

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Jack C. Applewhite
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OCP Oracle8 DBA
iNetProfit, Inc.
Austin, Texas
www.iNetProfit.com
japplewhite_at_inetprofit.com
(512)327-9068

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rick_stephenson_at_ovid.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 4:37 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Does anyone have any opinions on using CLOB/NCLOB datatypes in Oracle? I am running 8.1.7.2 on Solaris.
Oracle Docs state that CLOBs can handle up to 4 Gig. Are there any gotchas by using CLOBs?

Thanks for any information,

Rick Stephenson

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