> I strongly disagree with "except in one and only
> one operation: an INSERT statement can take a string as input to a text
> blob and it will be implicitly converted". As I am trying:
>
> insert into my_nice_table_with_blob_field
> (really_nice_texttype_blob_field,...)
> values
> ('fbfbfb');
>
> I am getting 'Conversion error from string "BLOB"' Hope, that it can
> be different :(

What version of Firebird?

Martijn Tonies
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