From: marktoml@gdi.net (Mark Tomlinson)
Subject: Re: Oracle 8 LOBs with a Windows Client - Advice Wanted
Date: 1998/11/11
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Using a PL/SQL package/procedure to wrap the calls to DBMS_LOB and
allow you piecewise access to the LOB data is fine. You can certainly
get better performance using OCI 8, but the learning curve is a bit
steep.