From: jdennis@crl.com (John Dennis)
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle
Subject: Storing files in the database
Date: 2 Feb 1995 11:03:39 -0800
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I am looking for some assistance regarding extracting information 
from an Oracle database.

I need to store a file (.ZIP) in a database.  The file will be 
stored in a database column defined as Long Raw (this will hold 
up to 2 GB of binary type data).  I then need a retrieve the file
from the database while in MS-DOS and have it place the files on 
the hard-drive.  I have VB, SQL-Windows and the C compiler with 
the SQL-Net in my list of tools.  The file will be between 
5 - 15 MB in size.

Does anyone have any ideas or have you done something similar to this?

Thanks for any assistance.


John Dennis