RAW
is fully supported and is the only way to store small amounts of binary data that will prevent Oracle from performing character set conversion.
LONG
and LONG RAW
are both deprecated in support of CLOB
and BLOB
data types.
It's hard to find documentation that says that something is not deprecated. This discussion of RAW
and LONG RAW
is probably the closest. It explicitly calls out the fact that LONG RAW
should not be used but makes no similar point about RAW
.