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Use dbms_lob.writeappend to join BLOB's

Oracle Tips by Burleson Consulting

Question:

I need to concatenate two CLOB data columns.  Is there a way to join two BLOB, LONG RAW or CLOB columns together?

Answer:

Oracle provides the dbms_lob package with many great procedures, and the writeappend procedure can join together multiple large objects (CLOB, BLOB).  You can use dbms_lob.writeappend as noted in the Oracle documentation:

The author and title fields are to be part of the indexed document text. Assume user appowner writes a stored procedure with the user datastore interface that synthesizes a document from the text, author, and title fields:

create procedure myproc(rid in rowid, tlob in out clob nocopy) is 
  begin 
      for c1 in (select author, title, text from articles 
                  where rowid = rid) 
      loop 
   dbms_lob.writeappend(tlob, length(c1.title), c1.title);
   dbms_lob.writeappend(tlob, length(c1.author), c1.author);
   dbms_lob.writeappend(tlob, length(c1.text), c1.text);
end loop; 
    end; 

This procedure takes in a rowid and a temporary CLOB locator, and concatenates all the article's columns into the temporary CLOB.

Also, note MetaLink for dbms_lob.writeappend issues:

  1. 3315549 - POOR PERFORMANCE WITH USING DBMS_LOB.WRITEAPPEND IN PLSQL LOOP

  2. 2602264 - DBMS_LOB.WRITEAPPEND() POOR PERFORMANCE WITH LARGE LOB AND SMALL CHUNK SIZE

  3. 2420525 - DBMS_LOB.WRITEAPPEND() PERFORMANCE ISSUES

 

 

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