Hi all,

Bear with me as I'm very new to PERL (Literally only a day of experience).

I'm trying to read a PDF file from an IMAGE datatype column in Sybase and then save the file to disk on the server.

I've looked at the Sybase documentation on syb_ct_data_info and syb_ct_get_data but I don't seem to be getting anywhere as I'm finding it to be a very confusing process.

This is what I have so far - 

my $sth = $dbp->prepare("SELECT pdf_report FROM report_table WHERE rep
+ort_name = ($report_name_here)");
$sth->{syb_binary_images} = 1;
$sth->{syb_no_bind_blob} = 1;

$sth->execute();

while (my @row = $sth->fetchrow_array) {
   
   my $image = $sth->syb_ct_get_data(1, \$pdf_report, 0);
   #This just prints out the size of the file, how can I actually retr
+ieve the file and write it to disk?
   print "$image\n";
}

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In reply to Sybase DBD and Perl - Retrieving images from the DB and saving to disk by chickenbeef

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