I may be wrong, but I think that images are stored as binary data in a
BLOB. The article applies to binary data (at least it seems to claim this
in the first and second paragraphs) regardless of its nature. It does refer
to long character text over and over, but I think it applies anyway. Try
searching the knowledge base for more articles on the "long text" setting.
At 09:48 AM 6/29/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Thanks for the response.
>
>The Allaire article that you reference only describes how to access
>character based LOB's.
>I'm using the BLOB to store photographs in a *.jpeg format.
>Does anyone have any experience on how to take a photograph that is stored
>in an Oracle database as a BLOB and display it to the user in his/her browser?
>
>Sincerely,
>Troy
>
>Jennifer wrote:
>
> > At 10:02 AM 6/28/00 -0400, you wrote:
> > >We have an Oracle Database that contains images located in BLOB fields.
> > >Can ColdFusion extract the images from these BLOB fields and display
> > >them to the user in a web browser.
> >
> > This is supported in 4.5.x. Here is an article about how to do it:
> > http://www2.allaire.com/Handlers/index.cfm?ID=16259&Method=Full
> >
> >
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