Re: How to read large Clobs in Oracle

Don Vaillancourt wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We're written a query to read large clobs from an Oracle clob field.
> Below is the query that we are using which has worked so far for all our
> clients. But this one client is having issues with the sort segment
> growing extremely large when making a number of calls repeatedly. Is
> there a better way in Oracle to retrieve large amounts of content from
> clob fields.
>
> SELECT SUBSTR (si_large_content, 1, 4290) AS txt
> FROM search_index
> WHERE si_id = 1002020
>
> We're using Oracle 9i running on a Linux system. The query is being
> executed through CFMX if that makes any difference.
>
> Thanks

My first thought would be DBMS_LOB.SUBSTR

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