At 05:02 AM 17/03/2007, you wrote:

>Ok.
>
>BTW, one of the examples of the .NET driver documentation is precisely
>how to insert a text value (possibly more than 32K) into a text BLOB .

That's fine. Under the hood, i.e. in the driver, there will be a
method that is partitioning the text input (file, some memory
structure) and streaming the contents across the interface in an
appropriate blob function call.

The DSQL language can *also* accept a string literal of up to 32,765
bytes directly for applying to a text blob. The driver itself
doesn't have to treat such an "in-range" string as a blob at the
client side. The Firebird engine itself will perform the
partitioning in that case.

./heLen