Re: database table as file system

Monty wrote:
> All, I have a client that has a requirement to put files (text
> documents, bitmaps, excel spreadsheets) into an Oracle database from
> desktop applications. For simplicity for the users what I want to
> offer is a product that maps a network drive as a simple database
> table containing, for example, the filename and the file (a blob),
> giving the impression that the table is a disk drive.
>
> Is anyone aware of an existing commercial product that would enable me
> to "copy files from the desktop to, for example, the H: drive" when
> really what is being done is importing a file from the desktop to a
> blob in a database table.
>
> Thank you
> Monty

Why "MUST" the files reside in an Oracle database? Why can't the files remain in/on the filesystem with just a "pointer" within the database? Received on Thu Mar 20 2003 - 02:47:54 CET