If the data will be less than ~4K, use 'varchar2', otherwise use 'long'.
- Tim
http://www.phptemplates.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Champagne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "PHP General Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 2:42 PM
Subject: [PHP] Help with PHP/Oracle and serializing data
> I'm developing a web application and would like to be able to store the
state
> of the application in an Oracle table by serializing a bunch of variables
and
> storing them in the database. Has anyone done this? What datatype would
be
> best to use here? I'm not serializing too much data now, but other
> applications that we do in the future may. Would this be a place to use a
> CLOB or should I stick with varchar2? Thanks!
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