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I have an oracle table with field type BLOB, length 4000, data type "2004". I know that this field simply contains some XML. How can I read the value of the BLOB, using an SQL select statement? Is there some conversion function to use? The same table/field in Sql Server is simply text.

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  • Why is this a BLOB (binary) column in Oracle and a text column in SQL Server?
    – user1822
    Oct 14, 2011 at 21:55

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This oracle package will do the job

select dbms_lob.substr(b,2000,1) from blobtest;

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