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 ## Applicability
 
+* This pattern works best when you can chop out a piece of the object model and use it to represent
+  the LOB.
+* Think of a LOB as a way to take a bunch of objects that aren’t likely to be queried from any SQL
+  route outside the application.
+* This graph can then be hooked into the SQL schema. Serialized LOB works poorly when you have
+  objects outside the LOB reference objects buried in it.
 * Serialized LOB isn’t considered as often as it might be. XML makes it much more attractive since
-  it yields a easy-to-implement textual approach.
+  it yields an easy-to-implement textual approach.
 * Its main disadvantage is that you can’t query the structure using SQL.
 * SQL extensions appear to get at XML data within a field, but that’s still not the same (or
   portable).
-* This pattern works best when you can chop out a piece of the object model and use it to represent
-  the LOB. Think of a LOB as a way to take a bunch of objects that aren’t likely to be queried from
-  any SQL route outside the application.
-* This graph can then be hooked into the SQL schema.
 
 ## Credits