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 ...

The NEW_VALUE directive allows you to store data retrieved from an Oracle table as a variable inside the SQL*Plus script. Written by Donald Burleson, Contributor June 18, 2002 at 6:01 p.m. PT ...