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How can I find the size of data in KB in a blob field?

Thanks in advance
Jul 20 '05 #1
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In his quest for guru status, HC wrote:
How can I find the size of data in KB in a blob field?


SELECT LENGTH(ablobfield) FROM atable;
will give you the number of bytes in column 'myblobfield'.
A few bytes are used to indicate the storage (min. 1, max. 8).

Hope this helps
Bart
Jul 20 '05 #2

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