OCILIB (C and C++ Driver for Oracle)  4.0.0
OCI_Lob Struct Reference
Data types

Oracle Internal Large objects: More...

#include <ocilib.h>

Detailed Description

Oracle Internal Large objects:

The following internal Larges Objects are supported:

  • BLOBs : Binary large objects
  • CLOBs / NCLOBs : Character large objects

LOBs were introduced by OCI8 to replace Long data types.

It's designed to store really larges objects (buffer, files) inside the database

Oracle encourages programmers to use those objects instead of LONG, LONG RAW, ...

OCILIB supports both LOBs and LONGs