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Blob Datatype in Oracle

This document provides steps to insert a binary file into a BLOB column in an Oracle database table. 1. Create a table with a BLOB column. 2. Create a directory object pointing to the filesystem location where files will be stored. 3. Use a PL/SQL block to insert an empty row, retrieve the BLOB locator, open the binary file, load the file contents into the BLOB, close the file, and commit.

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Blob Datatype in Oracle

This document provides steps to insert a binary file into a BLOB column in an Oracle database table. 1. Create a table with a BLOB column. 2. Create a directory object pointing to the filesystem location where files will be stored. 3. Use a PL/SQL block to insert an empty row, retrieve the BLOB locator, open the binary file, load the file contents into the BLOB, close the file, and commit.

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Q. How to insert Binary file in a table.

Step 1: Create a table in database having at least one column of datatype BLOB; Sample code for reference purpose:CREATE TABLE sam_emp ( empno number, ename VARCHAR2(50), resume BLOB DEFAULT Empty_Blob() );

STEP 2: Create a directory using the script Create or replace directory DIR_TEMP as /usr/tmp; In order to find at which locations we can place the file to moved into a table column one should check following commands:SELECT * FROM v$parameter WHERE NAME = 'utl_file_dir' It give the location where a file can be placed. Then create a directory pointing towill that location.

STEP 3: Sample code to insert the data in a table. declare f_lob bfile; b_lob blob; v_dir VARCHAR2(200):='DIR_TEMP'; begin insert into sam_emp(empno,ename,resume) values ( 9667, 'Saurav',Empty_Blob() ) return resume into b_lob; f_lob := bfilename(v_dir , 'test.rtf' ); dbms_lob.fileopen(f_lob, dbms_lob.file_readonly); dbms_lob.loadfromfile

( b_lob, f_lob, dbms_lob.getlength(f_lob) ); dbms_lob.fileclose(f_lob); commit; end; Description of above code:1> Insert statement will insert the row in the table. insert into sam_emp(empno,ename,resume) values ( 9667, 'Saurav',Empty_Blob() ) return resume into b_lob; Over here empty_blob() is being inserted in column of datatype blob.
EMPTY_BLOB returns an empty LOB locator that can be used to initialize a LOB variable or, in an INSERT or UPDATE statement, to initialize a LOB column or attribute to EMPTY.

i.e Insert a row with an empty BLOB in your table and return the locater.

2> f_lob := bfilename(v_dir , 'test.rtf' ); Point to the Word file to be loaded from the directory created in Step 1 using bfile data type. 3> dbms_lob.fileopen(f_lob, dbms_lob.file_readonly); Open the file and use the locater from Step 2 to insert the file. 4> dbms_lob.loadfromfile ( b_lob, f_lob, dbms_lob.getlength(f_lob) ); load the data from source file to table using the locator as destination reference retrieved using return clause of insert.

Close the file.

Execution Step:Login to UNIX box of DB tier of instance. One can find the hostname using the ping command in cmd.

Open the directory /usr/tmp

And transfer the file in transfer mode binary. Set the previleges to 0777 for the file. Execute the anonymous pl/sql procedure. One can verify the same by retrieving the data from the table.

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