Re: Oracle CLOB
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 15:48:07 -0400
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.44.0209111541230.9438-100000_at_softbase.math.uwaterloo.ca>
I've worked with CLOBs. But I think you want to store XML files in XMLType. XMLType is a sort of abstraction, such that the field is either stored as CLOB or distributed among different tables as specified by XML Schema. CLOB performs on the poorer side, and the other way is much better.
Contact me at : nitin[AT]cse.iitb.ac.in
Nitin Khandelwal
Final Year B. Tech
Computer Science & Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology
Bombay
INDIA
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Mike Linning wrote:
> Has anyone worked with CLOB datatype in Oracle 8+?
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> We're trying to store XML content in a data field and need more than the
> standard VARCHAR2(4000) for size.
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> Are there any drawbacks to using a CLOB to store our data?
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