I'm not up on Access, but I believe this piece of SQL will just load the filename and the letter 'A' into the table. Do you want to load the contents of the file into the table? As one field in a table? Then you're going to have to read the file contents into a scalar and then insert that into the table: 

use strict;
my $filename = "File_Name_One";
my $letter = "A";
my $filecontents = "";

open( FH, "<$filename" ) || die "unable to open $filename ($!)\n";
{
   local( $/ );
   undef $/;
   $filecontents = <FH>;
}
close( FH );

my $firstvar = $dbh->quote($filecontents);
my $secondvar = $dbh->quote($letter);

my $statement = "Insert into tableOne (filename, letter)  values ($fil
+econtents, $letter)";

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The usual caveats apply - the contents of the file need to match the definition of the column (large enough, binary vs text, etc).

-derby

In reply to Re: Inserting file into a database by derby
in thread Inserting file into a database by Anonymous Monk

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