You would be much better off posting your question to dbi-users@perl.org (you don't need to subscribe in order to post) and you won't be automatically subscribed either. Very few people actually use or view this form for dbi or driver support. dbi-users is where you'll get the best support. To try ans answer your question I think you can do the blob stuff but you have to treat them a lobs and use the lob locater functions in 1.19 see the POD to check out how to do this. As for Varrays I am working on that as we speak and that should be in release 1.20