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Download a BLOB directly from Database without temporary files or chunks


Download a binary large object (BLOB) from the database without temporary files or chunks.

Original Author: Thommy

Code

'Declarations
Dim objStream 'As ADODB.Stream
Dim objBLOB  'As Object
Dim strBLOB  'As String
Dim lngBLOB  'As Long
'Create objects
Set objStream = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Stream")
'Get the object, the object size and the object name from the database
'Set objBLOB = ... 'Get the BLOB out of the database
'strBLOB = ...   'Filename to be saved to
'lngBLOB = ...   'Length of the BLOB
'Assign object to stream
With objStream
.Type = 1
.Open
.Write objBLOB
.Position=0
End With
'Start forcing download
With Response
.AddHeader "Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=" & strBLOB
.AddHeader "Content-Length", lngBLOB
.ContentType = "binary/octet-stream"
.BinaryWrite objStream.Read
.Flush
End With
'Close all objects
objStream.Close
'Clean up
Set objStream = Nothing
Set objBLOB = Nothing

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Posted: 2002-06-01
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