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On Tue, 03 Oct 2000 02:56:03 GMT, "Mike Morgan" <mike.g.morgan_at_home.com> wrote:
>I'm sure this has been asked (although I haven't found a good answer yet)...
>
>How does one store Adobe Acrobat PDF files in an Oracle 8i database and them
>retrieve them to be displayed by Acrobat Reader? We are running 8.1.6 on an
>HP 9000 running HP-UX 11.0. Does this require interMedia? Oracle Internet
>Filesystem? or maybe just effective use of the DBMS_LOB package?
>
>DISCLAIMER -- I am an experienced Oracle DBA but not an experienced Oracle
>developer. Our development staff has come to the DBAs with this need and I
>would like to be able to give them a decent answer - which is why I come to
>the font of all Oracle wisdom ....
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Mike
>
just for storing and retrieving purposes you can use dbms_lob package. The interMedia is neccessary only for full text retrieval (query).
Jacek
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