CLOB data

[Nancy Hu]

I know Oracle provides us dbms_lob package to manipulate LOB data.  However, 
I can use standard DML to manipulate CLOB data as following.  Is there 
advantage to use dbms_lob package?

SQL> CREATE TABLE t
 2  (
 3    ISCT_ID              NUMBER(10),
 4    CONTENT              CLOB
 5  );
Table created.

SQL> insert into t values(1, 'test');

1 row created.

SQL> insert into t values(2, NULL);

1 row created.

SQL> update t set content='test2' where isct_id=2;

1 row updated.

SQL> select * from t;

  ISCT_ID                             CONTENT
-------------------------------------------------------
        1                               test
        2                               test2

SQL>

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