BLOB Destination

Hello there, I have a problem with saving a report, generated by oracle report at the run time, in table BLOB column.
I'm using Oracle 10g forms/reports and BLOBDestination.jar as a plugin.
I followed all necessary steps to setup my development machine, 'Storing your report in the database.pdf', but give me 'REP-50159: Executed successfully but there were some errors when distribute the output' and nothing saved in db table
This is URL that I'm using
http://machine_name:8889/reports/rwservlet?report=report_name.rdf&userid=username/password@DBName&DESTYPE=blobdestination&DESFORMAT=PDF&DESNAME=http://username:password@DBName:1521/MY_SID/My_Table_Name/My_Column_Name/My_PK_Coulmn_Name/My_PK_Value/My_Column_Report_FILENAME
Any help or thought, much appreciated.

I got the problem resolved by myself. I looked at the "showjobs" and found that the blobdestination output type was actually recognized. All the error messages (when running the url) had nothing to deal with the new output type. Here is the trick.
In addition to specifying the DESNAME=http://username:password@host:port/sid for the output destination, you also need to specify the userid userid=username/password@database_name in the same url in order for the report to run.
Thanks.
Andy

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===
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====
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The file is definitely in the C:\temp folder and is named correctly. I am working in WinXP with Oracle10gXE and both server and client are on the same machine.
The procedure compiles without any errors but when I attempt to run it I get an error message as below:
==
SQL> exec load_blob
BEGIN load_blob; END;
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-22285: non-existent directory or file for FILEOPEN operation
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_LOB", line 716
ORA-06512: at "FTM.LOAD_BLOB", line 14
ORA-06512: at line 1
==
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I have successfully created blob.. but the problem is in the Job Queue, when I go and see Destinatation name, I can see username and password and all the sensative information which I want to hide... If anyone worked on this please suggesset solution.
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Also tell me "whether the BLOB is stored in different tablespace than the default tablespace of the user?"
Thanks in advance.

Hello,
U can either
1) create a tablespace with the same name in destination where you are trying to import.
2) get the ddl of the table, modify the tablespace name to reflect the existing tablespace name in destination and run the ddl in the destination database, and run your import command with option ignore=y--> which will ignore all the create errors.
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How to create a dynamic hyperlink which point to a BLOB column

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I have a table with following structure
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BLOB|test.txt|1236
I wants to read the data from the BLOB attachment in to new file.
can any one help me in doing this with plsql??
Thanks in advance,
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Edited by: Balaji.tk on Jan 9, 2011 9:28 PM

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I have a public container where I store my blob via code.
I am able to access the item from the container via tha blob url. But when I try to access the blob via CDN I get the 404-Not found error.
I have set up the CDN 3 days back.
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Connection: Keep-Alive
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X-P2P-PeerDist: Version=1.1
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Accept: text/html, application/xhtml+xml, */*
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, peerdist
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X-P2P-PeerDist: Version=1.1
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The EOF and the LF versus CR/LF could influence the count difference, yes.
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<li>Load the file into a BLOB instead of a CLOB and see what getlength() returns for the BLOB. BLOBs would also do byte counts and not try to treat the source as text.
<li>Save the CLOB back into the filesystem and compare the original file with the exported CLOB and check the differences with some filecompare tool.

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