In This Chapter

This chapter describes smart large objects and provides information about performing the following tasks:

• Storing a smart large object in a database
• Using the smart-large-object interface
• Creating a smart large object
• Accessing a smart large object
• Modifying a smart large object
• Obtaining status information for a smart large object
• Deleting a smart large object
• Converting a smart large object to a file or buffer
• Converting an LO handle to text or binary representation
• Using byte-range locking
• Passing a NULL connection