>Hello all:
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>I have a table in Informix that has a BLOB column that contains PDF files in it. When I connect to it the field comes as general but when I try to view it (CTRL+PgDn) a message comes up saying that the "OLE object is invalid or corrupted". I verified the data and it is valid.
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>I am using SQLEXEC to extract the data. How do I extract this data so I can manipulate it?
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>TIA,
>
>Carlos

Take a look at How to work with Image field type on SQL Server (binary data)? FAQ #7995