because for the last 5 years, Oracle has heard from many users that the way they get updated is broken and needs recoding.
And they have done preciously nothing about it.
In 8i, 9i and 10g.
Heck, they don’t even use them in their dictionary itself!
Have a look at just one of many problems - for more, go to Metaclick and search on LOB in the bug database.
It starts off mild and sedate:
This just came up on the mailing list for my local Linux Users Group following last night’s meeting (which I didn’t attend), the original mail and my response is below:
> In the pub, there was an interesting conversation going on regarding
> validation of data in databases.
>
> Excuse the omissions, as I said, it was overheard
>
> Someone brought up the point that in databaseX If say, you have a
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