Operate on BLOBs, CLOBs, NCLOBs, BFILEs, and temporary LOBs.
Subprocedures:
APPEND Append the contents of the source LOB to the destination LOB.
CLOSE Close a previously opened internal or external LOB.
COMPARE Function
Compare two entire LOBs or parts of two LOBs.
COPY Copy all, or part, of the source LOB to the destination LOB.
CREATETEMPORARY Create a temporary BLOB or CLOB and its corresponding index.
ERASE Erase all or part of a LOB.
FILECLOSE Close the file.
FILECLOSEALL Close all previously opened files.
FILEEXISTS Function
Check if the file exists on the server.
FILEGETNAME Get the directory alias and file name.
FILEISOPEN Function
Check if the file was opened using the input BFILE locators.
FILEOPEN Open a file.
FREETEMPORARY Free the temporary BLOB or CLOB in the user's default temporary tablespace.
GETCHUNKSIZE Function
Return the amount of space used in the LOB chunk to store the LOB value.
GETLENGTH Function
Get the length of the LOB value.
INSTR Function
Return the matching position of the nth occurrence of the pattern in the LOB.
ISOPEN Function
Check to see if the LOB was already opened using the input locator.
ISTEMPORARY Function
Check if the locator is pointing to a temporary LOB.
LOADFROMFILE Load BFILE data into an internal LOB.
OPEN Opens a LOB (internal, external, or temporary) in the indicated mode.
READ Read data from the LOB starting at the specified offset.
SUBSTR Function
Return part of the LOB value starting at the specified offset.
TRIM Trims the LOB value to the specified shorter length.
WRITE Write data to the LOB from a specified offset.
WRITEAPPEND Write a buffer to the end of a LOB.
For full documentation of the packaged procedures above see the Oracle Manual:
"Oracle9i Supplied PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference"
or the book Oracle Built in Packages by Steven Feuerstein et al
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