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Re: Perl DBI and BLOBs - random access ?
Posted by: Jim Winstead
Date: July 27, 2006 01:31PM

No, the MySQL API does not support random access to the BLOB field.

You can get around this by using CONCAT() and SUBSTRING() to append data and retrieve partial data from the field, but obviously this isn't quite as seamless as a random-access API for BLOB fields would be.

Jim Winstead
MySQL/Sun

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