Re: Saving MS Office Documents into an Oracle Database?

Imho easiest way is to create directory mapped to nfs Windows share where you store all your documents, create table with the links to files and create job which will sync these links.

вт, 11 июн. 2019 г., 21:54 Jeremy Ovenden <Jeremy_at_hireserve.com>:

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> Absolutely familiar with storing documents (rtf, doc, docx, pdf, html,
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> do this already – and these are indexed using Oracle Text etc.
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> It was a bit of a tangential question perhaps for this list.
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> This question was really whether there was a way to insert something (an
> add in I guess) into MS Word to enable additional file-save / file-open
> options – i.e presenting Oracle like a network drive for example.
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> *From:* Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com>
> *Sent:* 11 June 2019 19:45
> *To:* Jeremy Ovenden <Jeremy_at_hireserve.com>
> *Cc:* Jeremiah Cetlin Wilton <jcwilton93_at_earlham.edu>; Oracle Mailing
> List <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
> *Subject:* Re: Saving MS Office Documents into an Oracle Database?
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> You can definitely store them as a blob. I am not sure if there is a way
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> On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 1:42 PM Jeremy Ovenden <Jeremy_at_hireserve.com>
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> Heh thanks for reinforcing your view with a useful image.
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> Why would you store anything in a database? Presumably for centralised,
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> *From:* Jeremiah Cetlin Wilton <jcwilton93_at_earlham.edu>
> *Sent:* 11 June 2019 19:35
> *To:* Jeremy Ovenden <Jeremy_at_hireserve.com>
> *Cc:* Oracle Mailing List <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
> *Subject:* Re: Saving MS Office Documents into an Oracle Database?
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> Sorry... just being annoying.
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> The question would be: "why?"
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> Oracle is a transactional relational database. Why would we keep MS Office
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> *From: *"Jeremy Ovenden" <Jeremy_at_hireserve.com>
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> *Sent: *Tuesday, June 11, 2019 10:06:07 AM
> *Subject: *Saving MS Office Documents into an Oracle Database?
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> Hi
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> Not sure if this is a the right group to ask for this assistance – but my
> google mojo has failed me thus far.
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> In MS Word you can save files to o/s but you can also save to e.g.
> Sharepoint and Teams – I was wondering if there is a means by which you can
> save directly into an Oracle DB?
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> Any pointers gratefully received.
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> Many thanks
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> Andrew W. Kerber
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