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REading a blob field in the SQL

Asked by: binsaji

I have few blob fields in my interbase database. They only store cahracter data. I want to read them along with the other normal fields so that I can export them into Excel or something. When I use the normal SQL with the blob field name included, the data is not comming( no error also).

I tried using a cursor , is not working.

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2002-07-24 at 22:48:49ID20327668
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Answers

 

by: YodaMagePosted on 2002-08-02 at 07:31:35ID: 7196161

Why not post your SQL?

 

by: binsajiPosted on 2002-08-04 at 22:59:05ID: 7200176

what do u mean by posting the SQL?

 

by: YodaMagePosted on 2002-08-06 at 11:15:09ID: 7204179

"When I use the normal SQL with the blob field name included"

-Lets see the normal SQL, or any code relavent to your operation. Better yet, what EXACTLY are you trying to do? Are you trying to write out IB records into some type of portable ASCII file?

 

by: binsajiPosted on 2002-08-12 at 22:03:08ID: 7216227

I have a table with few normal charaster and numeric fields with one or more blob field. I want to run a simple SQL to extract all these fields and display ina  grid and then export that into an XLS file.

The grid is showing all other data except the blob and the blob is only showing an eclipses where I can click and open  another window to see the data of the blob field.

I am using a Quantum grid which has a method to export the data into an excel file. When I do that except the blob field everythign else gets exported, except the blob field. I want to see the data of the blob field also in the XLS fiel as a column. Is that possible?

 

by: kretzschmarPosted on 2002-09-02 at 22:54:38ID: 7258110

you could try a cast as varchar,

not sure about the syntax, something like

select f1, cast(blobfieldname as varchar(2000)) from whatever

meikl ;-)

 

by: unordainedPosted on 2002-10-19 at 20:04:11ID: 7348679

Blob data is not available for direct query through SQL statements. You can try casting it, yes, but varchars have a limit of 32k characters, and a single row returned may not exceed 64kb total -- including expanded (space-padded) char fields.

Do you not have the option of writing a program (C, Delphi, or even PHP) which can request the Blob identifier and download the 'file'? (In this case, the blob acts much like a file handle, from which you read data as from any other file.)

As I said above, varchars can support up to 32k characters (at least in ascii mode) so for small amounts of text, they could replace blobs entirely. You would still have to convert all existing rows, again using a method as above, but it would solve your problem in the future by not requiring you to have access to anything but SQL.

 

by: kacorPosted on 2003-11-21 at 00:49:57ID: 9795533

Hi binsaji,

if you got the needed answer, please accept it by clicking on Accept in the header of the good answer. By this way you can express thanks for expert's support

with best regards

Janos

 

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