Database Administrator (DBA) Interview Question:

What are the Large object types sported by Oracle?

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1)bfile - Up to 4 gigabytes -> File locators that point to a read-only binary object outside of the database
2)blob - Up to 4 gigabytes. -> LOB locators that point to a large binary object within the database
3)clob - Up to 4 gigabytes. -> LOB locators that point to a large character object within the database
4)nclob - Up to 4 gigabytes. ->LOB locators that point to a large NLS character object within the database
Submitted by: Administrator

These are the large object type supported bye oracle
• CLOB and LONG for large fixed-width character data
• NCLOB for large fixed-width national character set data
• BLOB and LONG RAW for storing unstructured data
• BFILE for storing unstructured data in operating system files
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