See also: CLOB: Character Large OBject. Most (traditional) relational database servers do not support arbitrary sized (often >255 bytes) fields in a single row

See also: CLOB: Character Large OBject. Most (traditional) relational database servers do not support arbitrary sized (often >255 bytes) fields in a single row. The solution was to have a separate Large OBject heap, and store references to those LOBs in the actual rows. Starkey claims that he invented the term, and that the acronym is actually a backronym. I've heard conflicting stories on that score.