From: rene.nyffenegger@gmx.ch (Rene Nyffenegger) Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: uploading external docs on the database. Date: 8 Aug 2001 08:15:17 GMT Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <3B70986D.D6850141@hotmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pop-zh-19-2-dialup-225.freesurf.ch (194.230.222.225) X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 997258517 6479421 194.230.222.225 (16 [82536]) User-Agent: Xnews/4.01.30 >Hi, > >I would like to upload external documents like Word, Excel to an oracle >document using PL/SQL. Is it possible. >Can some one provide a sample code to upload such text documents. It's unclear to me what you understand by 'upload' in this context. >Checked up a OTN but it does talk of Video and Audio files only. Would >like to know if non-binary files like *.doc, *.xls can be uploaded and >read from the DB. MS Word, MS Excel files (*.doc *.xls) are actually binary files. Rene -- Recherchen im Schweizerischen Handelsamtsblatt: http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/SwissCompanies/Search.php3