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

In this specific case can the only way the two systems can communicate is using the dblink.

Also, the table solution is not that terrible, it's just messy to have to "cache" the data on my side of the dblink.