Re: Populating BLOB's from a SQL Script? - Solution
Mark,
I didn't fully understand you're earlier post, but now it seems that
the sqlunldr.pl script in the PDBA toolkit may do what you want.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/oracleperl/pdbatoolkit/
It will dump blobs to hex in a sqlldr compatible file, along with
the control and parameters script to reload with sqlldr.
HTH
Jared
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Ok, I got no suggestions but have found a rather clunky way to achieve
this:
Assuming a blob exists in a table somewhere then a statement like "select
dbms_lob.substr(data, 1000, 1) from table" can be used to retrieve 1000
bytes worth of data as hex.
For a new field a simple "insert into table (data) values
(hextoraw('the_hex_returned_above'));" statement will insert the data in
it's original form.
To work with BLOB's larger than 1K a looping process is required. The
easiest way I've found to append data is a small pl/sql block:
declare
new_data blob;
begin
select data into new_data from table for update;
dbms_lob.writeappend(new_data, ,
hextoraw('the_hex_returned'));
end;
So, to summarise. It's possible to convert BLOB's to hex, place the
results into a basic sql script and have then reloaded into a table.
Unfortunately you can only work on 1K of data at a time but a simple
program to generate the sql would overcome this problem. Net result = you
can deliver binary data via sql scripts would too much hassle.
Hopefully this helps somebody out there.
Regards,
Mark.
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Hi List,
I have been asked to look into the possibility of populating a BLOB column
(Oracle 8i currently) using an SQL Script. All the examples I've ever seen
involve reading the blob from a file and inserting it directly to the table
though.
The reasoning behind this is the desire to deliver a single script which
loads perhaps 50 images into a table. Performance isn't a problem, neither
is the size of the script.
Does anyone know of a way to do this? It is safe to assume the data
already exists in a table if that helps to create the script. I was
thinking perhaps a "rawtohex" type function may convert the binary data
into something that can exist within a script. Am I on the right track?
Regards,
Mark.
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Re: Populating BLOB's from a SQL Script? - Solution
Ok, I got no suggestions but have found a rather clunky way to achieve
this:
Assuming a blob exists in a table somewhere then a statement like "select
dbms_lob.substr(data, 1000, 1) from table" can be used to retrieve 1000
bytes worth of data as hex.
For a new field a simple "insert into table (data) values
(hextoraw('the_hex_returned_above'));" statement will insert the data in
it's original form.
To work with BLOB's larger than 1K a looping process is required. The
easiest way I've found to append data is a small pl/sql block:
declare
new_data blob;
begin
select data into new_data from table for update;
dbms_lob.writeappend(new_data, ,
hextoraw('the_hex_returned'));
end;
So, to summarise. It's possible to convert BLOB's to hex, place the
results into a basic sql script and have then reloaded into a table.
Unfortunately you can only work on 1K of data at a time but a simple
program to generate the sql would overcome this problem. Net result = you
can deliver binary data via sql scripts would too much hassle.
Hopefully this helps somebody out there.
Regards,
Mark.
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Hi List,
I have been asked to look into the possibility of populating a BLOB column
(Oracle 8i currently) using an SQL Script. All the examples I've ever seen
involve reading the blob from a file and inserting it directly to the table
though.
The reasoning behind this is the desire to deliver a single script which
loads perhaps 50 images into a table. Performance isn't a problem, neither
is the size of the script.
Does anyone know of a way to do this? It is safe to assume the data
already exists in a table if that helps to create the script. I was
thinking perhaps a "rawtohex" type function may convert the binary data
into something that can exist within a script. Am I on the right track?
Regards,
Mark.
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