>How to determine the data type stored in Blob. I mean whether the data stored in Blob is a Picture/Sound/.doc/.pdf or .xls.

Everything binary data.

>It can be possible to store the name of the file at the time of getting it (getfile()). Suppose there is no such information available.

Yes, :-) but better data type is char, varchar or memo :-)

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>Thank you.

MartinaJ

PS: BLOB is not GENERAL, the GENERAL data type contain OLE envelop with OLE data