Re: Blobs in Oracle ?

From: Philip Hall 283-4031 <hall_at_orion.NoSubdomain.NoDomain>
Date: 31 Mar 1992 16:28:09 GMT
Message-ID: <1992Mar31.162809.14135_at_aio.jsc.nasa.gov>


In article <2389_at_keele.keele.ac.uk>, csa09_at_seq1.keele.ac.uk (P. Singleton) writes:
|> In article <2364_at_keele.keele.ac.uk>, by csa09_at_seq1.keele.ac.uk (P. Singleton):
|> I wrote:
|>
|> > Wot are "blobs"?
|>
|> Thanks to correspondents who explained that they are "binary large objects".
|> Have these ever been implemented in ways which allow them to be indexed?
|> E.g. or i.e. with surrogates which have a one-to-one relationship to the
|> blob contents? In Prolog parlance this would/might be "bigtexts with
|> equality".
|> ---
|> __ __ Paul Singleton (Mr) JANET: paul_at_uk.ac.keele.cs
|> |__) (__ Computer Science Dept. other: paul_at_cs.keele.ac.uk
|> | . __). Keele University, Newcastle, tel: +44 (0)782 621111 x7355
|> Staffs ST5 5BG, ENGLAND fax: +44 (0)782 713082

Indexing, retrieal and retrieval efficiency are really the $64K questions in management of Objects. To the best of my knowledge, really useful methods of doing this have not been developed to date. Anyone else out there have any info on this??

PH Received on Tue Mar 31 1992 - 18:28:09 CEST

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