Against LONG:
5) Those are stored in-line and can easily become a performance headache (with chaining etc..)
- Kirti
- Arup Nanda <orarup_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> Your case against LOB is
>
> (1) desupported in 10i
> (2) Can't replicate through Oracle replication
> (3) Can't do a Create Table As Select if a column is LONG
> (4) LONG columns can't queried like SUBSTR(), INSTR(), DECODE, etc.
>
> You case for them to move from LONG to LOB
>
> (1) All of the above
> (2) The existing data from LONG can be painlessly migrated to LOB using
> TO_LOB()
>
> Their case against moving from LONG
>
> Code change required
>
> You counter argument:
>
> Code change is minimal. Almost all columns that are used as LONG can easily
> be converted to LOB.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Arup Nanda
>
>
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>
>
> > We are looking at purchasing a third party software package that is still
> using longs. I am trying to make the case for forcing them to upgrade to
> lob's before we will purchase their software. Aside from the pain of having
> to deal with them - are they going to stop being supported soon? If so do
> you have any urls with details/dates?
> >
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