What is the difference between CLOB and NCLOB?

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Loga picture Loga · Jul 28, 2011 · Viewed 34.9k times · Source

Can you state any difference between the CLOB and NCLOB?

Answer

Justin Cave picture Justin Cave · Jul 28, 2011

A CLOB stores character data encoded in the database character set. A NCLOB stores character data encoded in the national character set

SELECT parameter, value
  FROM v$nls_parameters
 WHERE parameter LIKE '%CHARACTERSET'

will show you the database and national character sets of your database.

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