Re: gif and jpg in BLOB
Posted in 1999
Colin M McGrath — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)
Thanks for catching my mistake, Art. I was under the bone-headed misconception
that because that's how dbload expected it, that that was the only legal format.
Art S. Kagel wrote:
>
> ONLY for use by dbload. If you are loading the BLOB in ESQL/C or CLI or
> 4GL you can load it as pure binary.
>
> Colin M McGrath wrote:
> >
> > The binary data needs to be converted into hexidecimal notation; binary blobs
> > must be stored in that format.
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Colin McGrath cmm@trac3000.ueci.com