Defining the OCI8 LOB Functions and OCI-Lob Object
LOB and BFILE data types are highly specialized types in the Oracle database. Oracle uses the DBMS_LOB stored package to read and write to LOB data types when working inside a session and transaction scope. The constants, functions, and procedures of the DBMS_LOB package service requests from the OCI-Lob object provided in the OCI8 function library.
Chapters 13 and 14 cover most of the OCI8 library, with connection functions located in Table 13-2, operational functions in Table 13-3, and the OCI-Collection methods in Table 14-1. Two LOB-specific operational functions were left out of the prior coverage, and one merits repeating, the oci_new_descriptor() function. The three operational OCI8 library ...
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