Question : BFILE to BLOB

Hi

I am using Oracle XE and have a table that contains a BLOB column. For some reason I need a type casting function like TO_CHAR that gives my BFILE as a BLOB in my Query. E.g.

SELECT TO_BLOB(myBFILEcol) from mytable;

Is there a way doing so?

Answer : BFILE to BLOB

The docs have some sample code that you should be able to turn into a function that returns a BLOB.

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10500_01/appdev.920/a96591/adl12bfl.htm#871056

Or

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10500_01/appdev.920/a96591/adl12bfl.htm#879707