Pronounced "see-lob." See Character Large Object.

(Character Large Object) A term for a large file of characters stored as part of a database record.

A large object whose value is composed of single-byte fixed-width character data that corresponds to the database character set defined for the Oracle8 database.

CLOB (Character Large Object) is an Oracle datatype that can hold up to 4 GB of data. Also see BLOB.

CLOB stands for Character Large OBject. Similar to a BLOB, it is an object stored and treated as a whole without any further structuring efforts. Unlike BLOBs, CLOBs are not stored as binary data, but as character data. This enables storing entire blocks of text data, such as ASCII or PostScript files.