Bad high and low value with the varchar2 data type

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  It does not make sense to try to build a literal string that represents the binary data in a GIF file and that insert a BLOB using an INSERT... Statement of VALUES.

  You can use the first approach (dbms_lob.loadfromfile) to load a GIF file (or any file) into a BLOB.
  If the image you are trying to load is not a file on the filesystem of database, you can use SQL * Loader on the client machine to load the data, or you can write an application in any language you want that reads the data from the file and inserts it into the BLOB by using the API in your language / framework. You have not told us what language and framework you use, but it shouldn't be too hard to find a suitable example. For example, if you use Java and JDBC, here is an example of loading a GIF in a table.

  Justin