Best way to handle LOBs in Oracle distributed databases

Question

If you create an Oracle dblink you cannot directly access LOB columns in the target tables.

For instance, you create a dblink with:

create database link          


        

Answer 1

Do you have a specific scenario in mind? For example, if the LOB holds files, and you are on a company intranet, perhaps you can write a stored procedure to extract the files to a known directory on the network and access them from there.