Oracle Equivalent of MySQL's TEXT type Oracle Equivalent of MySQL's TEXT type oracle oracle

Oracle Equivalent of MySQL's TEXT type


Oracle has BLOB, CLOB and NCLOB for storing binary, character and unicode character data types. You can also specify the LOB storage area which allows a DBA to fine tune the storage if necessary (i.e. putting the LOB data on separate disks)

This page gives a bit more info:http://www.dba-oracle.com/t_blob.htm


I think you probably want the CLOB datatype.


Oracle SQL has a limit of 4000 characters for a VARCHAR2 column (Oracle PL/SQL has a higher limit of 32,767 characters). As stated by the others, CLOB is suitable for storing large quantities of text.