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Oracle's namesake database management system has a data type called a CLOB, or Character Large OBject. Though the standard character data type, called CHAR, has a size limit of 2,000 characters ...

Using default values on database columns helps to insulate database design issues from application code. Find out how to change a column's default value at a later date using a single command.