Save HTML data in a Oracle Column

what would be the best way to Save HTML data in a Oracle Column?
while varchar2 can be used for upto 4000 bytes. it would still mean escaping a lot of special character. Is there a better way to do this? any help would be greatly appreciated.

Besides the XML types available to you and the associated Oracle provided packages to input and extract XML I have heard arguments that both should be stored in the database. That is you should store the extracted data in normal Oracle columns so it can be used like any other attribute and that you should store the XML as XML which can then be used as XML.
For data that is only inserted and deleted I can see this method but if updates to information within the XML is required then you just added another set of work requirements and complexity.
Who is going to access the data? What tools are the users going to use? Where else does the data need to be provied to and in what format? The answers to who and how the data will be used should provide you with the answer of what form the data should be stored in.
My personal view is that a relational database should be used for what it was designed for, storing relational data.
HTH -- Mark D Powell --

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How to retrieve the data type of a column of a table?

Hi,
I want to retrieve the data type of a column of a table. At the moment I am querying "OCI_ATTR_DATA_TYPE" attribute but it is returning SQLT_CHR for both varchar2 and nvarchar2 data type columns. I need to distinguish between these two data types columns separately. Is there any API through which I could get the exact data type of a column i.e. "nvarchar2"?
Thanks in advance.
Hashim

Hi,
This is the Oracle C++ Call Interface (OCCI) forum - I'm not sure if you are using OCCI or OCI (Oracle Call Interface - the C interface) since you reference "OCI_ATTR_DATA_TYPE" which is more of an OCI focus than OCCI.
In any case, you might take a look at "OCI_ATTR_CHARSET_FORM" which takes the following values:
#define SQLCS_IMPLICIT 1 /* for CHAR, VARCHAR2, CLOB w/o a specified set */
#define SQLCS_NCHAR 2 /* for NCHAR, NCHAR VARYING, NCLOB */So, if you have a datatype of SQLT_CHR and OCI_ATTR_CHARSET_FORM is SQLCS_IMPLICIT then you have a varchar2 if it is SQLCS_NCHAR then you have an nvarchar2.
If you are using OCCI and not OCI then take a look at MetaData::ATTR_DATA_TYPE and MetaData::ATTR_CHARSET_FORM which expose OCI_ATTR_DATA_TYPE and OCI_ATTR_CHARSET_FORM respectively.
Perhaps that will get you what you want.
Regards,
Mark

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