[Building Sakai] [Deploying Sakai] Converting Oracle LONGs to LOBs?

Maurer, Christopher Wayne chmaurer at iupui.edu
Tue May 26 13:21:43 PDT 2009


IU uses CLOBs and BLOBs with no additional changes.  I believe that we made
the change at the very beginning and didn¹t have any conversion, but I might
be mistaken.  I can check with our DBAs to confirm that statement!

Chris


On 5/26/09 3:45 PM, "Adams, David" <da1 at vt.edu> wrote:

> Great, thanks Seth. That covers LONG to CLOB, so I think we can feel
> confident about converting those. Relatedly, has anyone switched LONG
> RAW to BLOB?
> 
> On the particular problem we are having, we were just now able to
> convert LONG RAW to BLOB on METAOBJ_FORM_DEF.SCHEMADATA in our test
> environment and solves the problem reported in SAK-12914, but we haven't
> had a chance yet to verify that other operations on that table continue
> to work as expected.
> 
> Thanks for everyone's help so far.
> 
> 
> -dave
> 
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Seth Theriault [mailto:slt at columbia.edu]
>> > Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 3:14 PM
>> > To: Adams, David
>> > Cc: production at collab.sakaiproject.org; Sakai-Dev Developers; Najdi,
>> > Jihane; Humphries, William
>> > Subject: Re: [Deploying Sakai] Converting Oracle LONGs to LOBs?
>> >
>> > Adams, David wrote:
>> >
>>> > > Folks from Michigan have mentioned in various places that they
>>> > > have converted at least some of their LONG columns to LOBs. I
>>> > > was wondering if they or anyone else could post (or point me
>>> > > to) the steps they took to do the conversion, and if any code
>>> > > changes were necessary.
>> >
>> > Michigan posted a document on their experience here back in 2007:
>> >
>> > http://jira.sakaiproject.org/jira/browse/PROD-2
>> >
>> > Seth
> 
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