Oracle: LONG or CLOB?

Question

From these two threads,

• Why is LONG an issue with Oracle?
• Is it possible to read a CLOB from a remote Oracle database?

LONG is archaic an

Answer 1

If Oracle says a feature is deprecated it may not be available any longer in a future release. So unless your application will run on the current Oracle version for an unlimited amount of time, don't use deprecated functionality.