You can use a BLOB data type to store any data that a program can generate: graphic images, satellite images, video clips, audio clips, or formatted documents saved by any word processor or spreadsheet. The database server permits any kind of data of any length in a BLOB column.
Like CLOB objects, BLOB objects are stored in whole disk pages in separate disk areas from normal row data.
The advantage of the BLOB data type, as opposed to CLOB, is that it accepts any data. Otherwise, the advantages and disadvantages of the BLOB data type are the same as for the CLOB data type.
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