Re: Conversion from CLOB to RAW

At 11:30 AM 1/10/2003 -0800, Burke, William F (Bill) wrote:
>Here's where I get to ask the most likely simple question.
>
>I've inherited a database where it was built using a CLOB to hold XML data
>but we have now determined that was total overkill and want to move it to a
>RAW column or other suitable datatype.
>
>Looking for conversion issues or other alternatives.

Since Oracle is moving us away from LONG and RAW datatypes, I assume you want to convert from CLOB to BLOB? BLOB is probably more storage-efficient,
but since XML is made up of character data, I don't really understand the issue with
keeping it a CLOB.

  What do you mean by overkill?

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