Re: Best way to store Excel spreadsheets in Oracle?

Van Messner wrote:
>
> What do you all suggest as the most effective way to do this? Store a
> pointer to the document? Store the document? As what - a blob? And how is
> the document reconstituted with all of its formatting intact after you get
> in out of the database? They want to have users hit the database over the
> web and be able to see the spreadsheets they have permissions on.

I do this in my current application (Phase 1 in production has this feature, Phase 2 is in development.) I store the whole file in a LONG RAW column. Works out quite well.

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MikeC

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