Populating a BFILE Column with a Pointer to a File : BFILE « Large Objects « Oracle PL/SQL Tutorial






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  3. BFILE

You use the Oracle database's BFILENAME() function to populate the BFILE column with a pointer to your external file.

The BFILENAME() function accepts two parameters:

the database directory object's name (which was created earlier) and the name of the file.









34.2.BFILE
34.2.1.Creating Tables Containing BFILE Objects
34.2.2.Populating a BFILE Column with a Pointer to a File
34.2.3.Populating BFILE
34.2.4.BFILE type column
34.2.5.BFILE value and BFILENAME function
34.2.6.BFILE column and directory
34.2.7.Create a BFILE locator
34.2.8.Retrieve the LOB locater
34.2.9.Use a BFILE to load a LOB column