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CopyFromBFILE (OraLOB) Method

Applies To

OraBLOB, OraCLOB Objects

Description

Copies a portion or all of the LOB value of an OraBFILE object to the LOB value of this object.

Usage

OraBlob.CopyFromBFile srcBFile, amount, destOffset, srcOffset
 
OraClob.CopyFromBFile srcBFile, amount, destOffset, srcOffset

Arguments

The arguments for the method are:

Arguments	Description
[in] srcBFile	An OraBFILE object from which the data is to be copied.
[in] [optional] amount	An Integer specifying the maximum number to be copied, in characters for OraCLOB or bytes for OraBLOB or OraBFILE. Default value is the size of BFILE value of the srcBFile object.
[in] [optional] destOffset	An Integer specifying the absolute offset for this instance. Default is 1.
[in] [optional] srcOffset	An Integer specifying the absolute offset for the BFILE value of the source OraBFILE object. Default is 1.

Remarks

Obtain either a row-level lock or object-level lock before calling this method.

For a single-byte character set, the OraBFile object should be of the same character set as the database.

If the database has a variable width character set, the OraBFile object passed to the OraClob.CopyFromBFile method must point to a file that uses the UCS2 character set.