Checkout http://php.dreamwerx.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6
For a PHP example you could easily convert to PERL or just install PHP
standalone binary on the box.
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Zafar wrote:
> Hello
>
> Having trouble inserting images into a BLOB column. No problems doing
> this 'one at a time' via
> a third party MySQL GUI Manager, but I need to create an indexed table
> containing some
> 1K + images. Using the recommeded method from the MySQL manaual ie.
>
> UPDATE tbl_name
> SET blob_column=LOAD_FILE("/tmp/picture")
> WHERE id=1;
>
> only sets the blob field to NULL (0 bytes) ! - even where an image is
> stored perfectly well.
> There has to a SAFE METHOD of doing these image inserts from within a
> 'while' 'for' or some other loop statement in a shell script or perl
> routine. Appreciate enlighenment on this topic from
> someone who has been down this road and figured it out.
>
> Rgds, ZCH
>
>
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