Re: Working with images (BFILE's ?)

Thomas Schumann wrote:

> Hi,
> my problem is the following. I don't have any idea to work with images
> in an Oracle database. Into the documentation to the Oracle 8 Server I
> haven't found enough answers to this problem. Where can I find any
> sufficient examples (source code) to work with images?
>
> Thanks Thomas

 Hi Thomas,

I've just finished my MSc dissertation on LOB (BFile, BLOB, CLOB) support in Oracle8. If you need any help I'd be more than happy to help you out if I can (e-mail on d.g.e_at_btinternet.com). Your experience is very typical - the Oracle literature is very limited in many respects. I would strongly recommend the following book which is significantly more objective than the Oracle8 on-line documentation:

M Ault, Oracle8 Black Book, Coriolis Publishing, 1997

It points out the deficiencies of the support as well as the good bits and shows how to work with Oracle8 image data using Java.

BFILE specific document:

S Bobowski, Managing Unstructured Data with Oracle8, www.oramag.com, 1997

For working with LOBs using C/C++ see

Programmers' Guide to the Oracle Call Interface 8.0, Oracle on-line documentation, 1998

For the PL/SQL LOB support see the following as well:

S Urman, Oracle8 PL/SQL Programming, Oracle Press, 1997

These are the best documents I have found.

Darrren Received on Sat Jun 27 1998 - 15:42:04 CDT