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CLOB

Term · Computing and IT · MLC-T-CMP-000195

A Character Large Object, which is a data type in a database management system designed to store large amounts of character-based data. It is used for text documents, XML files, or other textual information that exceeds the capacity of standard string data types. CLOBs store data using a specific character encoding, such as UTF-8 or UTF-16.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-CMP-000195
FieldComputing and IT
SubjectBits and Bytes
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-CMP-000195",
  "term": "CLOB",
  "field": "Computing and IT",
  "definition": "A Character Large Object, which is a data type in a database management system designed to store large amounts of character-based data. It is used for text documents, XML files, or other textual information that exceeds the capacity of standard string data types. CLOBs store data using a specific character encoding, such as UTF-8 or UTF-16.",
  "subject": "Bits and Bytes",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/computing/clob/"
}

Record 215 of 1,553 in Computing and IT terminology (MLC-0101). Request the full dataset.