ABOUT BLOB AND CLOB:-
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1. BLOB:-
A. STANDS FOR 'BYNARY LARGE OBJECT'.
B. REPRESENTS A LARGE BINARY STRING OF RAW BYTES.
C. LIKE A VARBYTE BUT UP TO APPROXIMATELY 2 GB (2097088000).
EXAMPLE:-
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CREATE SET TABLE ORDERS
(
ORDERKEY INTEGER,
ORDERSTATUS VARCHAR(10),
ORDERMESSAGE BLOB(2097088000)
)PRIMARY INDEX(ORDERKEY);
NOTE:- USED TO STORE SIMPLE TEXT, HTML, XML DOCUMENTS.
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2. CLOB:-
A. STANDS FOR 'CHARACTER LARGE OBJECT'
B. REPRESENTS A LARGE CHARACTER STRING.
C. LIKE A VARCHAR BUT UP TO APPROXIMATELY 2 GB FOR LATIN CHARACTER SET AND ABOUT 1 GB FOR UNICODE CHARACTER SET.
EXAMPLE:-
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CREATE TABLE CUSTOMER_SERVICE
(
ID INTEGER NOT NULL,
TEXT_FILE CLOB(10000)
)UNIQUE PRIMARY INDEX(ID);
NOTE:- USED TO STORE GRAPHICS, VIDEO CLIPS AND BINARY FILES.
ABOUT BLOB AND CLOB:-
=====================
1. BLOB:-
A. STANDS FOR 'BYNARY LARGE OBJECT'.
B. REPRESENTS A LARGE BINARY STRING OF RAW BYTES.
C. LIKE A VARBYTE BUT UP TO APPROXIMATELY 2 GB (2097088000).
EXAMPLE:-
----------
CREATE SET TABLE ORDERS
(
ORDERKEY INTEGER,
ORDERSTATUS VARCHAR(10),
ORDERMESSAGE BLOB(2097088000)
)PRIMARY INDEX(ORDERKEY);
NOTE:- USED TO STORE SIMPLE TEXT, HTML, XML DOCUMENTS.
====================================================================================
2. CLOB:-
A. STANDS FOR 'CHARACTER LARGE OBJECT'
B. REPRESENTS A LARGE CHARACTER STRING.
C. LIKE A VARCHAR BUT UP TO APPROXIMATELY 2 GB FOR LATIN CHARACTER SET AND ABOUT 1 GB FOR UNICODE CHARACTER SET.
EXAMPLE:-
---------
CREATE TABLE CUSTOMER_SERVICE
(
ID INTEGER NOT NULL,
TEXT_FILE CLOB(10000)
)UNIQUE PRIMARY INDEX(ID);
NOTE:- USED TO STORE GRAPHICS, VIDEO CLIPS AND BINARY FILES.