jonnybuchanan,
FYI, long raw is limited to 32,760 bytes when used within PL/SQL. That tripped me up once. Here is the code I use to insert BLOBs into Oracle.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use DBD::Oracle qw(:ora_types);

# Set up any Oracle environment variables needed

my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:Oracle:db', 'user', 'pass') or die $DBI::e
+rrstr;

# Get data from file
open(my $fh, '<', 'some.file') or die "Unable to open 'some.file' for 
+reading: $!";
binmode $fh;
my $blob;
{
    local $/ = undef;
    $blob = <$fh>;
}

my $sth = $dbh->prepare("UPDATE table SET col = ?") or die $dbh->errst
+r;
$sth->bind_param(1, $blob, {ora_type => ORA_BLOB});
$sth->execute() or die $dbh->errstr;
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I have never had a problem with it.