How To Retrieve RAW/LONG RAW Data from Oracle for ASP Page

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This article was previously published under Q194799

Summary

This article explains how to insert and retrieve RAW or LONG RAW data from an Oracle database for use in an Active Server Pages (ASP) page.

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More information

To insert images into an Oracle table, see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
185958� How To Use ADO GetChunk/AppendChunk with Oracle for BLOB Data
NOTE: We do not recommend using Microsoft Access to insert images into Oracle. Microsoft Access adds an OLE wrapper around the object that prevents the object from being extracted and interpreted correctly by ASP.

To query and display the image, use the following code:

      <%@ LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" %>

      <%
      'Clear existing HTTP header information.
      Response.Expires = 0
      Response.Buffer = TRUE
      Response.Clear

      'Set the HTTP header to an image type, if you want to display
      'a jpg you need to use the "image/jpeg" content type.
      Response.ContentType = "image/gif"

      Dim strTemp

      Set oConn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")

     'You need to change this line to reflect your DSN, UID
     'and PWD.
      oConn.Open "DSN=Ovteam;UID=userid;PWD=password;"

     'Change this line to use your table that contains a raw or
     'long raw field.  In this case, ID is the primary key of the
     'IMAGE table and IMG is the RAW or LONG RAW data column.
      sSQL = "Select ID, IMG from IMAGE where ID = 1"

      Set oRS = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
      oRS.Source = sSQL
      oRS.ActiveConnection = oConn

     'The cursor type does not seem to matter.  A keyset cursor was used
     'with success for this article; however, you will not be able to
     'scroll with it because the content type of this page is set for
     '"image/gif".

      oRS.Open

      strtemp = oRS("IMG")
      Response.BinaryWrite(strTemp)
      Response.End

      oRS.Close
      Set oRS = nothing
      oConn.Close
      Set oConn = nothing
   %>

NOTE: Because you are changing the content type of this page, you can display only one image. In order to incorporate this into a page with text, you need to do a server side include of this .asp page to get the picture into another page.

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