Rick,
If the CLOB is <4KB and stored inline with the table, then it takes up only
as much space as it needs - much like a VarChar2. If the CLOB is stored
out-of-line in a LOB segment, it takes at least one, possibly many more,
Oracle DB Blocks, depending on your specification of "Chunk" in the Create
Table command.
Jack
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T (Richard)
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 12:50 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Hi,
I am resending this question as I cannot find the answer
> 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?
>
> Thanks
> Rick
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