RE: Long Raws --> BLOBS

And what about plain old RAW? I have a need for a binary column upon which we will do bitwise operations, and it seems that RAW is more manageable than BLOB. Also, the column isn't large, so it seems weird to me to use a "large" object type. Anyone have any insight as to the advantages/disadvantages of each?

Diana Duncan

-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Christiansen [mailto:randy_christiansen_at_auto-soft.com] Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 7:41 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Long Raws --> BLOBS

Hello Everybody,

It is my understanding that Oracle is replacing the Long and Long Raw data types with the
LOBs (BLOB, CLOB, NCLOB, BFILE).

Does anyone know in what version Oracle will phase out Long and Long Raws?

Thanks,
Randy J. Christiansen
Oracle Guy
Brooks Automation - Auto-Soft Division
Randy.christiansen_at_brooks.com

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