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Unit-4 PPT-8

Working with large objects in databases often requires storing and retrieving files like images, videos, audio, and documents. There are two types of large objects: Binary Large Objects (BLOBs) for binary files up to 4GB, and Character Large Objects (CLOBs) for text files up to 4GB. To insert BLOBs, represent the file as an input stream, prepare a statement with a BLOB parameter, set the stream on the parameter, and execute. To retrieve, get the stream from the result set and write it to a file output stream. CLOB insertion is similar but uses a character stream instead of a binary stream.

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Unit-4 PPT-8

Working with large objects in databases often requires storing and retrieving files like images, videos, audio, and documents. There are two types of large objects: Binary Large Objects (BLOBs) for binary files up to 4GB, and Character Large Objects (CLOBs) for text files up to 4GB. To insert BLOBs, represent the file as an input stream, prepare a statement with a BLOB parameter, set the stream on the parameter, and execute. To retrieve, get the stream from the result set and write it to a file output stream. CLOB insertion is similar but uses a character stream instead of a binary stream.

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Working with large objects

(BLOB and CLOB)


Sometimes as the part of programming requirement, we have to
insert and retrieve large files like images, video files, audio files,
resume etc with respect to database.
Eg:
upload image in matrinomial web sites
upload resume in job related web sites
To store and retrieve large information we should go for Large
Objects(LOBs).
There are 2 types of Large Objects.
1. Binary Large Object (BLOB)
2. Character Large Object (CLOB)
1) Binary Large Object (BLOB)
A BLOB is a collection of binary data stored as a single
entity in the database.
BLOB type objects can be images, video files, audio files
etc..
BLOB datatype can store maximum of "4GB" binary
data.
2) CLOB (Character Large Objects):
A CLOB is a collection of Character data stored as a single
entity in the database.
CLOB can be used to store large text documents(may plain text
or xml documents)
CLOB Type can store maximum of 4GB data.
Eg: hydhistory.txt
Steps to insert BLOB type into database:
1. create a table in the database which can accept BLOB type data.
create table persons(name varchar2(10),image BLOB);

2. Represent image file in the form of Java File object.


File f = new File("katrina.jpg");

3. Create FileInputStream to read binary data represented by image file


FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(f);

4. Create PreparedStatement with insert query.


PreparedStatement pst = con.prepareStatement("insert into persons values(?,?)");
5. Set values to positional parameters.
pst.setString(1,"katrina");
To set values to BLOB datatype, we can use the following method:
setBinaryStream()
public void setBinaryStream(int index,InputStream is)
public void setBinaryStream(int index,InputStream is,int length)
public void setBinaryStream(int index,InputStream is,long length)
Eg:
pst.setBinaryStream(2,fis); ➔ Oracle 11g
pst.setBinaryStream(2,fis,(int)f.length()); ➔ Oracle 10g
6. execute sql query
pst.executeUpdate();
1. Prepare ResultSet object with BLOB type
RS rs = st.executeQuery("select * from persons");

2. Read Normal data from ResultSet


String name=rs.getString(1);

3. Get InputStream to read binary data from ResultSet


InputStream is = rs.getBinaryStream(2);
4. Prepare target resource to hold BLOB data by using
FileOutputStream
FOS fos = new FOS("katrina_new.jpg");
5. Read Binary Data from InputStream and write that Binary data
to output Stream.
CLOB (Character Large Objects):
A CLOB is a collection of Character data stored as a single entity
in the database.
CLOB can be used to store large text documents(may plain text
or xml documents)
CLOB Type can store maximum of 4GB data.
Eg: hydhistory.txt
Steps to insert CLOB type file in the database:
All steps are exactly same as BLOB, except the following differences
1. Instead of FileInputStream, we have to take FileReader.
2. Instead of setBinaryStream() method we have to use setCharacterStream()
method.
public void setCharacterStream(int index,Reader r) throws SQLException
public void setCharacterStream(int index,Reader r,int length) throws
SQLException
public void setCharacterStream(int index,Reader r,long length) throws
SQLException
What is the difference between BLOB and CLOB?
• We can use BLOB Type to represent binary information like
images, video files, audio files etc
• Where as we can use CLOB Type to represent Character data
like text file, xml file etc...

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