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Why was the LONG RAW Oracle column type deprecated in ORACLE 8 ?

Why was the LONG RAW ORACLE column type deprecated in ORACLE 8 ?

Did Oracle have issues with its implementation ?

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Lots of reasons mentioned here:

http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=2&f=59&t=107157

Reasons include performance and lack of functionality with LONG RAW.

skaffman  2010-08-06 13:21:12

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