Re: Graphics, ODBC and Oracle

Bruno Kamiche wrote:
>
> I urgently need to know how to insert data in a raw field, using and SQL
> file or by ODBC calls (specially the last one).
> We need to store a signature graphic file in the database, the application
> is written in VB 5.0 and it uses ODBC to connect to an Oracle 7.3 NT
> server.
> As a first approach in the application we convert the graphic file into an
> hex character string, but when we tried to insert it into the database, an
> error showed up, telling that the maximum length for literal string is
> about 2Kb.
> What shall I do?
> --

I've got a similar problem. I want to save a bitmap in a long raw-field in a ORACLE db. I don't know

1st) how to read data from this long raw field
2nd) how to show the bitmap in a picturebox or in an image
3rd) how to write data of a bitmap into the long raw field, so thet i

Thanks for help

Christian Düll - ibv Received on Mon Sep 22 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST