How to store photo images in a database table?

Question

Hello Y'all,
How do I store about 695 signs inventory photo images from a PDF file to an Oracle database table? We are using Oracle 10.2.0.2. What data type should I use for these images? How about the table space? What table space should I allocate to ensure there is no space issue?
Thanks in advance for any/all the help.

Answer 1

Here you go..
Assuming you have a table
test_blob (col1 BLOB);
Create an oracle directory or use an existing one to place the image on the oracle server.
create or replace directory tmp_blob as '/tmp';This tmp location should exist on your server where oracle is installed.
also ftp the image file (say image1.bmp) to this location
declare
l_blob BLOB;
l_bfle BFILE;
l_re BOOLEAN := FALSE;
Begin
DBMS_LOB.createtemporary(l_blob, TRUE);
insert into test_blob(col1) values (EMPTY_BLOB())
returning col1 into l_blob;
--return image into l_blob;
l_bfile := BFILENAME('TMP_BLOB','image1.bmp');
--check if file exists
l_ret := DBMS_LOB.fileexists (l_bfile) = 1;
if (l_ret)
then
DBMS_LOB.fileopen(l_bfile);
DBMS_LOB.loadfromfile(l_blob, l_bfile, DBMS_LOB.getlength(l_bfile));
commit;
else
DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line('File not present');
end if;
end;
/ not tested this exact one.. check for the syntax errors if any.. this should work