RE: LOb's vs Bfiles

From: Jack C. Applewhite <japplewhite_at_inetprofit.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 06:23:30 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.0033F158.20010702062531@fatcity.com>

Justin,

We store over 8 million CLOB documents in our 8.1.6 DB under Win2k. All are indexed using interMedia Text. I haven't done a direct comparison of BFile storage with that many documents, so I can't comment on all the pros and cons. However, CLOBs perform well for us with the only con I can think of being the much larger amount of redo and rollback generated for inserts and deletes vs what I imagine would be almost none for external BFiles.

Jack

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Jack C. Applewhite
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iNetProfit, Inc.
Austin, Texas
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japplewhite_at_inetprofit.com
(512)327-9068

-----Original Message-----
Coleman
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 5:51 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Dear All,

I am presently debating about if I wish to store 2 million rich multimedia data files as LOB's in the database or as Bfile references in the Database. I think I should use LOB's?

Do must people use Bfile references or LOB's? What are the disadvantages of LOB's?

Cheers,
Justin

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