All,

The Oracle 8i Application Developer's Guide - Fundamentals manual states
that the RAW and LONG RAW data types are only provided for backward
compatibility and that a BLOB or BFILE should be used in place for new
applications.

I would like to use a RAW data type because I have a few bytes of binary
data to store but I don't think storing this amount of data in a BLOB is
warranted. Why would Oracle suggest using only BLOBs? Surely there is
still a need for RAW?

Has anyone got any information on this?

Craig.

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