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Look out behind you, lady, it’s the Blob!

Posted in Design Issues with tags , , , , , on October 18, 2008 by moffdub

I was going to write about our second requirements session for the Carbon Copy Whiteboard. But I wanted to do something a little less structured. Requirements aren’t that important anyway. </sarcasm>

I’ll note that I write this post at a time when I really just don’t feel like writing a post. But I’m sticking with my Atwood blog diet of posting even if you don’t have anything to say or don’t feel like it.

Anyway, the Blob is better known as the Binary Large OBject. Its use is obvious: storing images, movies, PDFs, or any other kind of binary data. But of what possible use can CLOBs be? A CLOB is a Character Large OBject.

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