Re: Saving MS Office Documents into an Oracle Database?

From: Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 13:44:52 -0500
Message-ID: <CAJvnOJaJr1pM4UfXpxrMRhJ4LfBGSXXPaEFSC5Yki0vMukMD-A_at_mail.gmail.com>





You can definitely store them as a blob. I am not sure if there is a way to read and write those directly to the database, but I expect there is some way to do it.

On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 1:42 PM Jeremy Ovenden <Jeremy_at_hireserve.com> wrote:

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> Why would you store anything in a database? Presumably for centralised,
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> *From:* Jeremiah Cetlin Wilton <jcwilton93_at_earlham.edu>
> *Sent:* 11 June 2019 19:35
> *To:* Jeremy Ovenden <Jeremy_at_hireserve.com>
> *Cc:* Oracle Mailing List <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
> *Subject:* Re: Saving MS Office Documents into an Oracle Database?
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> Sorry... just being annoying.
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> The question would be: "why?"
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> Oracle is a transactional relational database. Why would we keep MS Office
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> *From: *"Jeremy Ovenden" <Jeremy_at_hireserve.com>
> *To: *"Oracle Mailing List" <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
> *Sent: *Tuesday, June 11, 2019 10:06:07 AM
> *Subject: *Saving MS Office Documents into an Oracle Database?
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> Hi
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> Not sure if this is a the right group to ask for this assistance – but my
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> In MS Word you can save files to o/s but you can also save to e.g.
> Sharepoint and Teams – I was wondering if there is a means by which you can
> save directly into an Oracle DB?
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> Any pointers gratefully received.
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> Many thanks
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