Re: Blob scrambling

Try CLOB not BLOB for text...

"Not Me" <noone_at_nowhere.com> wrote:

>Hey group,
>
>I'm testing out my BLOB setup by inserting a small amount of text and then
>trying to pull it out. Each time I get the right length of data (about 69
>bytes) but the content of that data is well scrambled.
>
>I'm using Delphi 5 with the standard ADO recordset methods .AppendChunk and
>.GetChunk, and using Oracle's own ODBC provider (MS provider didn't get me
>anywhere near this). I'm also validating that the information uploaded is
>correct, and it always is; I've even tried base 64 encoding the data to see
>if using the reduced ASCII-only character set might help and it doesn't.
>
>I've done bit-by-bit comparisons with the information as it goes in vs. when
>it comes out and I can't discern any patterns there (but that's probably not
>much of a surprise). Any help would be very appreciated!
>

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