More Bytes returned from Image Data Type

I have a field set to Image data type, and store a long string(possible othe
r
objects)into it with size 5663, and returned with 5663+28 bytes.
These strings wil be deserialized after retrieving. However failde because
the bytes seems to include some extra bytes with \0 and 0x01 and have 28 mor
e
bytes ahead of the original string.
How could I deal with it? Just remove the first 28 bytes? It this method
formal? I had thought the returned bytes should have the same size with the
one I stored into, it seems not, am I right?
Thanks.BOL talks about "BLOBs and OLE Objects" and the normal process for images wa
s
to read in "chunks" (e.g. Sussman's ADO 2.6 Wrox book), but now should use
Stream object instead - check your doc [you omitted to say what
language/version you were using]
HTH
Dick
"zhaounknown" wrote:

> I have a field set to Image data type, and store a long string(possible ot
her
> objects)into it with size 5663, and returned with 5663+28 bytes.
> These strings wil be deserialized after retrieving. However failde because
> the bytes seems to include some extra bytes with \0 and 0x01 and have 28 m
ore
> bytes ahead of the original string.
> How could I deal with it? Just remove the first 28 bytes? It this method
> formal? I had thought the returned bytes should have the same size with th
e
> one I stored into, it seems not, am I right?
> Thanks.|||I am using C#, in .Net framework 1.1.
What documentation I shoudl refer to, since I can't find one addressing
this, partly because I am new to the BLOB data type.
However, how the underlying BLOB field is implemented doesn't matter to the
queried result for a BLOB field, is that right?
Please give more detailed guidance for this.
Thank you very much.
"Dick in UK" wrote:
> BOL talks about "BLOBs and OLE Objects" and the normal process for images
was
> to read in "chunks" (e.g. Sussman's ADO 2.6 Wrox book), but now should use
> Stream object instead - check your doc [you omitted to say what
> language/version you were using]
> HTH
> Dick
> "zhaounknown" wrote:
>