Export PeopleSoft Attachments using PL/SQL

Oracle provides PeopleTools developers with the ability to store files with transactions using the File Attachment API. Likewise, the File Attachment API includes PeopleCode functions for extracting and displaying attachments. What if you need to export attachments directly from a database or from SQR where you don't have access to the File Attachment PeopleCode functions? Here is some PL/SQL demonstrating how to export attachments. You just need to set the file name and the attachment record name. I labeled the values you need to change with TODO:. Code for other databases should be relatively similar.

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