Looking at the O'Reilly Perl/DBI book(pg 153, 'Inserting and Updating LONG/LOB columns'), I think it's better if you use bind params with a datatype argument. I have not tried the following code, but it should work:

use  DBI qw(:sql_types);
my $dsn = "DBI:Oracle:foobar";
       my $user = "foobar";
       my $pass = "baz";
       my $textfile = "testing.txt";

       open (TEXT, "$textfile") or die "Couldn't open textfile: $!";
       my $longText = join('', <TEXT>);
       close(TEXT);
       $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, $user, $pass,{ RaiseError => 1})
          or die "Could not connect to database! $DBI::errstr";

$sth = $$dbh->prepare(
    'INSERT INTO table_name (key_name, long_description) VALUES (?, ?)
+';
$sth->bind_param( 1, 42);
$sth->bind_param(2, $longText, SQL_BLOB);
$sth->execute();

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In reply to Re: Importing files with perl::dbi by johannz
in thread Importing files with perl::dbi by Anonymous Monk

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