RE: UTL_FILE

From: Jack C. Applewhite <japplewhite_at_inetprofit.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:44:34 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.0032835F.20010613112543@fatcity.com>

Someone was pointing out that UTL_FILE provides sequential access to OS files and wanted to know of any tool that provided random access. Just after I read and deleted that message I thought about a possible solution using Oracle's built-in tools.

How about creating a little table with a BFile column. Make the external document a BFile, then you could use all the DBMS_LOB procedures and functions on it. I've not done that, but theoretically it would work, as long as the file is less than 4GB.

Anybody used DBMS_LOB procedures on large BFiles?

Jack

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Jack C. Applewhite
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