Re: Indexing a CLOB

  • From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Ben.Wittmeier@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:37:45 +0000

what's he doing to this that is slow? insert/update/select ?

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Ben Wittmeier <Ben.Wittmeier@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>
>  We need to increase the size of a data field beyond its varchar2(4000)
> definition because 4000 characters isn't large enough.  The field is
> currently not indexed.  The developer has done some initial testing with
> CLOB's but found the performance with the CLOB seemed slow so he's
> wondering about an index on the field.  Though he also said the slow
> performance may be a result of the way he's doing things with the CLOB
> (as this is new to him).  Are there any options available to index the
> CLOB field to improve performance? Oracle mentions using a CONTEXT
> index....
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts on indexing CLOB fields?
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