topic Creating BLOB's in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/creating-blob-s/m-p/533151#M30184 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello all! I am in the beginning stages of trying to attach PDF documents (deeds &amp; owners policies) to a feature class in SDE. Does anyone know or have recommendations how to import the PDF's into SDE and make them into blobs?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 13 May 2014 21:56:05 GMT Lebowski 2014-05-13T21:56:05Z Creating BLOB's https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/creating-blob-s/m-p/533151#M30184 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello all! I am in the beginning stages of trying to attach PDF documents (deeds &amp; owners policies) to a feature class in SDE. Does anyone know or have recommendations how to import the PDF's into SDE and make them into blobs?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 13 May 2014 21:56:05 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/creating-blob-s/m-p/533151#M30184 Lebowski 2014-05-13T21:56:05Z Re: Creating BLOB's https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/creating-blob-s/m-p/533152#M30185 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>ArcGIS for Desktop allows Raster data as attribute in a Feature Class and I believe there is no option to load pdf as an attribute. However it can be done through RDBMS and I haven't tested it. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You can use either </SPAN><A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.2/index.html#//01m900000002000000">Attachments </A><SPAN>or </SPAN><A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.2/index.html#//00s500000004000000">Hyperlink</A><SPAN>. It allows you to add raster, pdf and few other formats.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 14 May 2014 06:14:28 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/creating-blob-s/m-p/533152#M30185 NidhinKarthikeyan 2014-05-14T06:14:28Z Re: Creating BLOB's https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/creating-blob-s/m-p/533153#M30186 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>The main problem with placing documents in a BLOB is that you must access it through the database.&nbsp; I prefer to store a URL (file or web-based), which allows for more access modes. -V</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 14 May 2014 09:43:13 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/creating-blob-s/m-p/533153#M30186 VinceAngelo 2014-05-14T09:43:13Z