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

Oracle Long data type. More...

#include <ocilib.h>

Detailed Description

Oracle Long data type.

The following long Objects are supported:

  • LONG RAW : Binary long objects
  • LONG : Character long objects

Those types were used in older versions of Oracle (before Oracle8i) to store large chunks of data in the database.

It's now depreciated by Oracle that recommends using LOBs

Many databases and applications are still designed to use LONGs that's why OCILIB supports Long Objects and piecewise operations