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Why do you say it doesn't work? There are many sites that do that already,
in fact we've been doing it since 1993. If you want a freebie ... then grab
what Thomas Kyte wrote. It's on the Oracle gov't website as a free
downloadable utiltiy.
Thor HW
David Hagemann wrote in message <01bdf91d$4957f1b0$8040400a_at_dah005pc>...
>Hello,
>
>Is there any data type in version 7.3.2 that can act similar to BLOB that
>is available in 8.0 (or higher). I want to store a .gif image on oracle
>and read it back to display in an HTML page using ASP.
>
> I have tried to do this with a LONG RAW data type, but it doesn't work.
>People tell me they are doing this type of storage and retrieval with
>BLOB's in 8.0, but we won't have 8.0 until next year. I was hoping to get
>something working in our 7.3.2 version.
>
>Thanks inadvance for any ideas,
>
>David
>
Received on Fri Oct 16 1998 - 17:58:37 CDT