13 Advanced Design Considerations

This section discusses the design considerations for more advanced application development issues.

• Read-Consistent Locators
  Oracle Database provides the same read consistency mechanisms for LOBs as for all other database reads and updates of scalar quantities.
• LOB Locators and Transaction Boundaries
  LOB locators can be used in both transactions as well as transaction IDs.
• LOBs in the Object Cache
  When you copy one object to another in the object cache with a LOB locator attribute, only the LOB locator is copied.
• Guidelines for Creating Terabyte sized LOBs
  To create terabyte LOBs in supported environments, use the following guidelines to make use of all available space in the tablespace for LOB storage.