The manual said if you want to write a BLOB data into file, you should use INTO DUMPFILE, But that still doen't work. I got a Dumpfile with just 1 byte. There is a BLOB data in my table. What is the problem? best regards hxia >See MySQL Manual section 6.4.1 >SELECT INTO OUTFILE -- _______________________________________________ Talk More, Pay Less with Net2Phone Direct(R), up to 1500 minutes free! http://www.net2phone.com/cgi-bin/link.cgi?143 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php