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 -------------------------------- Jack C. Applewhite Database Administrator/Developer OCP Oracle8 DBA iNetProfit, Inc. Austin, Texas www.iNetProfit.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] (512)327-9068 -----Original Message----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jack C. Applewhite INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
