Hey guys... working on forum software with an Oracle backend, and I've noticed some weird loading times between MySQL and Oracle when it comes to large text fields. Probably belong in a few forums, but meh.

At the moment I have it as a Long field, which seems to take about 0.040 per record... so if I try and have 15 posts per page, then its gunna take a while. With MySQL, it handled it really easily... thus my confusion.

I was using a Blob field, but that was even slower still. Any ideas?