Why is long an issue with Oracle?
It will be better if some one can tell me what are the issues with using the long data type in oracle? something related to storage?
I was asked this in an interview.
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Why is long an issue with Oracle?
It will be better if some one can tell me what are the issues with using the long data type in oracle? something related to storage?
I was asked this in an interview.
LONG is archaic and deprecated, and has been superseded by CLOB. There are lots of restrictions with LONGs and they are difficult to manipulate in SQL. So while you may have to deal with them in old databases, you would be unwise to ever use a LONG column in a new table.