Re: Ever popular LOB question

Explicitly store 'em out-of-line from the get-go. 1. You can manage the LOB segments more directly and sensibly. 2. Queries that just need "regular", non-LOB, data don't have to read as many blocks.

Worked for me with 13 million CLOB documents. Also, almost essential if you ever use interMedia / Oracle Text to index the docs (which we did).

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                      Brian Wisniewski                                                                                    
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RHAS 3.0/Oracle 9.2.0.6
Is there any benefit to explicitely stating 'out of line' on lobs outside of rowsize/possible caching issues. I'm going to be storing ~100K lobs - chunksize defaulted to the blocksize - 8k so obviously these will be out of line because of their size in this particular table. Once the lobs are inserted into the database they will not be updated.

I'm not sure of how Oracle will recognize the entire size of the lob when it gets it from the application. Will Oracle start storing it in line w/ associated redo until it reaches ~4k and then move it out of line for every one of these lobs? That would seem like an expensive operation but I'm not really sure of the behind the sceens actions of what Oracle is doing.

I'm trying to set up some tests with our apps folks but was wondering if anyone had any insight regarding explicit out-of-line vs in-line migrated to out-of-line because of size.

When we were dealing with smaller lobs we experienced decrease performance when we had explicitely used out-of-line. But those lobs at the time would have been a mix of in-line and out-of-line so I don't consider that valid given the difference in lob sizes.

Test, test, test - I know - just having 'challenges' with developers. I also want to test different chunksizes but time is critical right now.

Any thoughts/experiences you'd like to share regarding lobs?

Thanks - Brian

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