Just figured out using the following:
byte[] originalBytes = rs.getBytes(2);
String s = new String(originalBytes, "ASCII");

Another question is how to update a record for Blob field?

jw

--- In IB-Java@y..., jwcanada@y... wrote:
> Using Interclient Driver, I am able to using getString("MYMEMO") to
> retrieve the Blob. In firebird JDBC, how to do it?
>
> jw