Re: Getting data out from LOBs

Kalle wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem: I have been asked whether it is possible to "download"
> the documents to word -format from the database where docs are stored as
> a LOB...
>
> Any ideas,
>
> Thank you in advance
> kalle

If the blob was originally a word file, then extracting will naturally result in a word document. You can extract it via plsql and utl_raw, or maybe explore IFS which exposes Oracle tables as Windows folders etc

hth
connor

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