I've got 8000 photos (jpeg format) stored in an Oracle database. The table that contains the photos has these columns which are of interest : PICTURE LONG RAW PICTURE_LENGTH NOT NULL NUMBER(14) My goals in order of progression are : 1. Extract the image from the database using ZSQL methods 2. Serve that image up directly to the web browser 3. Save the image to the filesystem or, even better, create a Zope Image Object Unfortunately, I'm stuck at step 1. Doing a request on the database with ZSQL methods is returning : Error, oci.error: (911, 'ORA-00911: invalid character\012') Is there any way for Zope to handle this or is this going to involve python-DCOracle scripts instead and then uploading into Zope ? Thank you very much in advance, chas