Storing PDF as a BLOB on Oracle 9i

Question

Hello,
I need to store a PDF document in ORACLE. I obvioulsy need to store it as a BLOB. I have created a BLOB filled in the table but I have no idea what to do next. Are there any good tutorials on this ? Can someone provide me a very simple code that inserts BLOB and than reads it?
Thanks

Answer 1

Dear All,
try this code it will store image or any file or pdf in to oracle database but,
the only thing you do is to put the table column type as 'LONG RAW'
It stores all the above as BLOBs.
try
// create connection
PreparedStatement pstmt = null;
File f = new File(file_path);
     FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(f);
     // System.out.println("IMG : "+file_name+" Len : "+f.length());
     String insert = "insert into table_name values(?)";
     pstmt = con.prepareStatement(insert);
     pstmt.setBinaryStream(1,fis,(int)f.length());
     i = pstmt.executeUpdate();
     fis.close();
     f = null;
          catch(Exception e)
               e.printStackTrace();
          finally
               try{
                    if(pstmt!=null)
                         pstmt.close();
                    if(con!=null)
                         con.close();
               catch(Exception e){}
          }