Storing PDF and Word document in oracle database

Question

any idea, how to store PDF and word document using oracle database.
thanks

Answer 1

The common approach is store as BLOB in database, use DBMS_LOB package to handle the loading and reading, sample script source asktom
Also check this thread in Asktom
SQL> create table demo
  2  ( id        INT PRIMARY KEY,
  3    theBlob   blob,
  4    dummy_col VARCHAR2(1)
  5  )
  6  /
Table created.
SQL> -- --------------------------------------------------------------
SQL> -- Load a PDF file into a BLOB field and compress the BLOB.
SQL> -- --------------------------------------------------------------
SQL> declare
  2      l_blob    blob;
  3      l_bfile   bfile;
  4 
  5  begin
  6      insert into demo (id, theBLOB) values ( 1, empty_blob() )
  7      returning theBlob into l_blob;
  8 
  9      l_bfile := bfilename( 'BLOB_DIR', 'Test.PDF' );
10      dbms_lob.fileopen( l_bfile );
11 
12      dbms_lob.loadfromfile( l_blob,
13                             l_bfile,
14                             dbms_lob.getlength( l_bfile ) );
15 
16      UPDATE demo
17      SET    theBlob = utl_compress.lz_compress(l_blob, 6)
18      WHERE  id = 1;
19  -- If you don't want compress the LOB just update directly
20      dbms_lob.fileclose( l_bfile );
21      COMMIT;
22  end;
23  /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed