Re: database table as file system

1. It must be Oracle because it's an Oracle house.
2. A BFile is also fine - the files don't have to reside as blobs in the database. But what still needs to be implemented is an automated way of linking the qualified filename, with the file, and for simplicity I just want users to drag a file onto an explorer-like application. Monty

"Ana C. Dent" <anacedent_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<f59ea.4469$Bq6.2398_at_fed1read02>...
> 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 - 10:25:21 CET