Saving files such as doc, pdf to a table

Question

dear all; I have googled this and tried reading the documentation but might need a bit of help. I have the following code below
create table file_test (id number, name varchar2(4000), clob_column clob, primary key(id));now I would like to test it out by writing a simple procedure which will give me an opportunity to pass in a file from anyway in my directory with a particular name a save it to the table and then my final step will be to retreive it. how do I do this? i have looked at the following example below on this thread
Saving a PDF or DOC file into Oracle 9i using Developer Forms 10g
but it wasnt very helpful as such.

Answer 1

Ok I am getting several errors, this is what i have so far
declare
v_src_loc bfile := bfliename('IMAGES', 'C:/thankyou.doc');
v_amount integer;
v_b clob;
begin
dbms_lob.open(v_src_loc, DBMS_LOB.LOB_READONLY);
v_amount := DBMS_LOB.GETLENGTH(v_src_loc);
insert into file_test values (1, EMPTY_CLOB()) returning clob_column into v
DBMS_LOB.LOADFROMFILE(v_b, v_src_loc, v_amount);
DBMS_LOB.CLOSE(v_src_loc);
END;
/and I am getting the following errors
ERROR at line 2:
ORA-06550: line 2, column 20:
PLS-00201: identifier 'BFLIENAME' must be declared
ORA-06550: line 2, column 11:
PL/SQL: Item ignored
ORA-06550: line 6, column 15:
PLS-00320: the declaration of the type of this expression is incomplete or
malformed
ORA-06550: line 6, column 1:
PL/SQL: Statement ignored
ORA-06550: line 7, column 32:
PLS-00320: the declaration of the type of this expression is incomplete or
malformed
ORA-06550: line 7, column 1:
PL/SQL: Statement ignored
ORA-06550: line 9, column 28:
PLS-00320: the declaration of the type of this expression is incomplete or
malformed
ORA-06550: line 9, column 1:
PL/SQL: Statement ignored
ORA-06550: line 10, column 16:
PLS-00320: the declaration of the type of this expression is incomplete or
malformed
ORA-06550: line 10, column 1:
PL/SQL: Statement ignored