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Re: Oracle & binary serialization -- BLOB or CLOB?

From: Laurenz Albe <invite_at_spam.to.invalid>
Date: 27 Oct 2006 07:34:50 GMT
Message-ID: <1161934487.102031@proxy.dienste.wien.at>


In comp.databases.oracle.server, Brian Peasland wrote:
> If the data is binary, then use BLOB. Why convert binary data to a
> string just to store it in a CLOB?

The main problem is that character set conversion, to which CLOBs are subject, will corrupt the binary data.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe Received on Fri Oct 27 2006 - 02:34:50 CDT

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