How to insert a video into oracle database?

@raphael_tillman 

To insert a video file into an Oracle database, you will first need to convert the video file into a BLOB (Binary Large OBject) format. Once you have your video file in BLOB format, you can then insert it into a table in the database.

Here is an example of how you can do this using SQL:

1. Convert the video file into a BLOB format. You can use a tool like SQL Developer or a programming language like Java or Python to accomplish this. Here is an example code snippet in Python:

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with open('video.mp4', 'rb') as file:
    blob_data = file.read()

1. Now that you have the video file in BLOB format, you can insert it into a table in the Oracle database. Create a table with a column of type BLOB to store the video data:

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CREATE TABLE videos (
    video_id NUMBER PRIMARY KEY,
    video_name VARCHAR2(100),
    video_content BLOB
);

1. Insert the BLOB data into the table using an INSERT statement:

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INSERT INTO videos (video_id, video_name, video_content)
VALUES (1, 'my_video', empty_blob());

UPDATE videos
SET video_content = :blob_data
WHERE video_id = 1;

Replace :blob_data with the actual BLOB data you obtained from step 1.

1. Once the video data is inserted into the database, you can retrieve it using a SELECT statement and display it in your application as needed.

Keep in mind that storing large video files in a database can impact performance, so it is recommended to store the files on a file system or a cloud storage service and save just the file path or URL in the database instead.