Monday, August 13, 2001, 1:50:28 PM, Clark wrote:
>> CLOBs vs VARCHAR. If a varchar datatype is not completely used it will
>> not allocate storage for what is was defined.
>> Does a CLOB data type use entire storage if not completely used?
No. If you think about it long enough, you'll realize that
could never be the case. When you define a CLOB, you don't
specify a maximum length as you do when you define a
VARCHAR2. The max length of any CLOB column, therefore, is
the max length of a CLOB period, which is 4 gigabytes. A
CLOB column would not be of much use if every small value
that you put into it took up an entire 4 gigs. Some simple
testing will show you that is not the case.
Best regards,
Jonathan Gennick
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