BLOB vs LONG RAW

[jpickup]

I apologise in advance that this is an Oracle question and not a DOA one:

Using Oracle 8i is there a good reason why I should use BLOB rather than LONG RAW to store binary data? I've managed to get the LOB Locator stuff working (largely through reading posts here) but don't really see the point.

Could anyone enlighten me?

Thanks,
John.

 

[Marco Kalter]

It performs better, you are more flexible reading and writing data, and you can have more than 1 column in a table.

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Marco Kalter
Allround Automations