Interest in the use of large objects (LOBs) continues to grow, particularly for storing nontraditional datatypes such as images. The Oracle database has been able to store large objects for some time. Oracle8 added the capability to store multiple LOB col- umns in each table. Oracle Database 10g essentially removes the space limitation on large objects. Object-oriented programming Support of object structures has been included since Oracle8i to allow an object-ori- ented approach to programming. For example, programmers can create user-defined datatypes, complete with their own methods and attributes. .
