> > The solution to this problem seems to be this: use the 12.1 OCI (Thick) > client. > The problem encountered has been classified as a bug by Oracle. > I don't understand, what does this bug refer to? Oracle database bug or SQL developer bug? Am I right that the recomended solution is "OCILobArrayRead", which can't be used without OCI library? -- Best regards, Sayan Malakshinov Senior performance tuning engineer PSBank http://orasql.org