Re: Loading images into Long Raw fields

In article <1994Oct27.110848.1_at_va.nkw.ac.uk>, k_jrag_at_va.nkw.ac.uk writes...
>I am in the process of designing a database to store information
>about borehole geology. One of the requirements is to store images
>of borehole core photographs and geophysical images of the inside
>of the boreholes. The data loaders will be faced with loading
>many hundreds of images into long raw fields.
>
>My question is what is the best way of doing this? The 'Offical'
>answer seems to be using OCI calls from C or Fortran. Is there a
>less 'user/programmer hostile' way of doing this?
>
>Jeremy Giles
>Data and Digital Systems group
>British Geological Survey
>Nottingham, England

You can use Pro*C as an easier alternative to OCI. (Perhaps you were hoping for something much easier-- a general purpose load image utility.)

I could send you some Pro*C code and you'd have to change my table names & column names to your own. Warning: I'm very busy these days and my "tech support" would not be very good.

It would be really cool if you modified my code with dynamic Pro*C so that it would be a general purpose load image utility (i.e. the user would specify the table name & column names at run time).

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