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- From: mharper@well.sf.ca.us (Michael J. Harper)
- Subject: Eating it RAW
- Message-ID: <BxGJw1.Kr1@well.sf.ca.us>
- Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us
- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 16:45:37 GMT
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- I am trying to store data into a LONG RAW column, and I am running into
- some difficulty.
-
- The data I would like to store happens to be TIFF data. Consequently, it
- is a minimum of 4K or so in size. When I tried using HEXTORAW with an 8K
- string, I was told that my string was too long. So, I divided the string
- into a bunch of 254-character strings all concatenated. No parse error,
- but only the first 256 characters were stored anyway. This gives me only
- 128 bytes of raw data, which isn't quite enough.
-
- So, is there another way to issue an INSERT that will allow me to store up to
- the full length of my LONG RAW?
-
- Also, I noticed that when I fetch this column, the first byte seems to be
- the row number in the query. Does anyone know what this byte really means
- and what it's doing at the beginning of my raw data?
-
- Thanks.
- --
- Michael J. Harper
- mharper@well.sf.ca.us
-