Re: Will Oracle ever follow its own advice?
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:28:09 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <gn6dcp$51u$2_at_solani.org>
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 06:32:08 -0800, Mark D Powell wrote:
> Version 11g introduced Secure Files (new internal code to handle LOBS)
> and now calls traditional LOB data types Basic Files. Secure Files are
> supposed to be more space efficient and faster than Basic Files. Perhaps
> this will speed the migration of the base tables to using LOB data
> types.
>
> HTH -- Mark D Powell --
There is a beautiful presentation about LOB internals on Julian Dyke's
site. You can take a look here:
http://www.juliandyke.com/Presentations/Presentations.html#LOBInternals
Fortunately, it doesn't really matter. According to an article that was yesterday on the /., relational databases are doomed: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/is_the_relational_database_doomed.php So, LOB columns, schmlob columns, we all better start learning FrontPage, C# and .Not.
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