OK, here is it. It's a bit mixed up as I've been trying different things.

Getting the impression this doesn't work though, despite what the documentation says. 

# perform the connection using the Oracle driver
my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Oracle:$database", "$username", "$password
+", {
    PrintError => 0,
    RaiseError => 0
}) or die "Can't connect to the database: $DBI::errstr\n";

print "INFO: connected to $database OK, updating picture_table with $p
+hoto\n";

# prepare update statement
print "INFO: reading $photo to blob\n";
open (BLOB, "<$photo") or die "Can't open $photo: $!";
binmode BLOB;
{
    local($/) = undef;
    $blob = <BLOB>;
}
close (BLOB);

$quotedblob = $dbh->quote($blob);

# THIS ALL WORKS BAR THE BLOB UPLOAD...!!!!
#my $sth = $dbh->prepare ("update ssi_pri_photos set recorded = sysdat
+e, recorded_by = 'David', photograph = '$blob' where person_number = 
+'$person_id'");
#my $sth = $dbh->prepare ("select recorded_by from ssi_pri_photos");
my $sth = $dbh->prepare ("update ssi_pri_photos set recorded = sysdate
+, recorded_by = 'David', photograph = ? where person_number = $person
+_id");

$sth->bind_param(1, $quotedblob, SQL_LONGVARBINARY);

# execute the statement in the database
$sth->execute or die "Can't execute SQL statement: $DBI::errstr\n";

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Thanks to everyone for the suggestions so far, by the way.

Thanks,
David

In reply to Re: Re: Oracle BLOBs DBD::Oracle by PerliKnight
in thread Oracle BLOBs DBD::Oracle by PerliKnight

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