Re: BLOB ???

Andrea -

That's a standard message when you perform a select * against a table with a BLOB column, or explicitly select the BLOB column via SQL*Plus. You say that you don't know how data got into the table - are you sure that data is actually in the BLOB column? You can use the DBMS_LOB.GETLENGTH() function to see if there is really any data in the rows.

Brian

Andrea Oracle wrote:

> Hi, all
>
> I have a table that has a column with BLOB data type.
>
> When I do a select I got:
> SP2-0678: Column or attribute type can not be
> displayed by SQL*Plus
>
> And I don't know how the data got inserted there.
>
> Could anyone let me know how to insert and display
> BLOB contents. Thank you!
>
> Andrea
>
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