title: How to get size in bytes of a CLOB column in Oracle?
body: <p>How do I get the size in bytes of a <code>CLOB</code> column in Oracle?</p>
  
  <p><code>LENGTH()</code> and <code>DBMS_LOB.getLength()</code> both return number of characters used in the <code>CLOB</code> but I need to know how many bytes are used (I'm dealing with multibyte charactersets).</p>