uploading binary file - ODBC (SapDB)

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Dan Fratean wrote:
> OnThanks. It works. Somehow. But it truncates my binary data. Maybe
> because of that special characters? I don't know why. Used that example
> from sapdb.org, tried some more combinations, and still the same
> problem. I made a 'hello world' program in C, and tried to upload it
> into a long byte column. In this way I could upload the first 6 bytes:
> 'ELF


'. But that's all. Any ideas?

Make sure you are using LONG BYTE as column type.

> Thanks in anticipation.
> 
>  Thu, 2003-02-20 at 11:13, Daniel Dittmar wrote:
> 
>>Dan Fratean wrote:
>>
>>>I am trying to find a way to upload a binary file into a field from a
>>>database. Can anyone give me some ideas? I can take the file, parse it
>>>and escape the special characters, but I don't like this idea. Better
>>>I would use streams, eventually a persistent ODBC connection. Can
>>
>>Extrapolating the file contents into the SQL isn't a good idea as you
>>noticed
>>- there is a maximum size for SQL statements (configuration dependent)
>>- this doesn't work at all for UPDATE statements
>>
>>Use parameters instead.
>>
>>If you use mxODBC, the following should work:
>>data = open (fname, 'rb').read ()
>>cursor.execute ("insert into sometable (keycol, longcol) values (?, ?)",
>>[keyval, data])
>>
>>I don't know if mxODBC supports the putchunk and getchunk functionality of
>>ODBC.

Yes. BLOBs are no problem at all -- for any database/ODBCdriver
combo that supports these (most do in some way).

>>You could also use the SAPDB python modules, which allow you to pass streams
>>as parameters so there is no need to load the whole data into memory.
>>
>>An example for the native module sapdb.sql is at
>>http://www.sapdb.org/7.4/longtest.py.html.
>>
>>An example using the DB API compatible sapdb.dbapi:
>># pass the read method, not the read data
>>reader = open (fname, 'rb').read
>>cursor.execute ("insert into sometable (keycol, longcol) values (?, ?)",
>>[keyval, reader])
>>
>>Daniel
>>
>>
>>
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