Re: writing a blob

From: Sybrand Bakker <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl>
Date: 18 Oct 2001 04:06:43 -0700
Message-ID: <a20d28ee.0110180306.3950f44f_at_posting.google.com>


emwalter_at_engin.umich.edu (Erin Walter) wrote in message news:<f73db37a.0110170909.2e1a0ce6_at_posting.google.com>...
> I am having a bunch of problems writing a blob and getting the correct
> results back. I am attempting to write a long string of zeros and
> ones representing a binary string. I am reading like this, from Java
[snip]

> any ideas??? any help would be greatly appreciated. I really don't
> know anything about blobs...it is my first time ever working with
> them.
>
> Thanks,
> Erin Walter

Check out the documentation for and use the dbms_lob package for LOBs. utl_raw is supposed to work on LONG RAWs, which is definitely a different datatype.

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA Received on Thu Oct 18 2001 - 13:06:43 CEST

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