Someone was pointing out that UTL_FILE provides sequential access to OS
files and wanted to know of any tool that provided random access. Just
after I read and deleted that message I thought about a possible solution
using Oracle's built-in tools.
How about creating a little table with a BFile column. Make the external
document a BFile, then you could use all the DBMS_LOB procedures and
functions on it. I've not done that, but theoretically it would work, as
long as the file is less than 4GB.
Anybody used DBMS_LOB procedures on large BFiles?
Jack
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Jack C. Applewhite
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iNetProfit, Inc.
Austin, Texas
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