And a bit of history about it:
http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&l=;IBPHOENIX.PAGES;NAME='ibp_blob_history'

>Bruce,
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>>Just rcvd latest Advisor where Ken L writes of a new Blob datatype. Anyone, what might this be? Name isn't very descriptive (I hope, anyway :-)
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>Binary Large Object. This is one of the new features to improve VFP compatibility with SQL Server.
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>Here is a good explanation of BLOBs in SQL Server:
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>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnsqlmag03/html/ABLOBofaDifferentColor.asp