Storing lots of text - the best way?

Hi,

I'm just wondering what is the usual way of storing large bodies of text in an Oracle DB. varchar2's no good cos it only allows 2000 chars max. I could use several of them to store a single article but that seems like a kludge. Alternatively, I could just store the filename, which I could retrieve (using PHP on our website), but it would be nice if I could store it all in the DB (as you can in Access). Are BLOBs the key to this? Or the ConText cartridge? (if I have to pay extra for that I want to avoid it).

How do you tackle this aspect of DB design?

Thanks in advance,

• Kev