MySQL doesn’t have a native CLOB (Character Large Object) data type exactly like some other databases such as Oracle. MySQL offers the TEXT family of data types, which can be considered similar to CLOB. The LONGTEXT type can store up to 4GB of text data.
Sometimes you need to export MySQL TEXT (CLOB) data to files, you can use Withdata DBBlobEditor as MySQL TEXT (CLOB) exporter.
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