Inline BLOB / BINARY data types in SQL / JDBC

Let's say I want to avoid using bind variables in JDBC and run SQL using "ad-hoc" statements, e.g:

connection.createStatement().executeQuery("SELECT ...");

Is there any convention / JDBC escape syntax to inline BLOB data types? I know that H2 has this syntax:

INSERT INTO lob_table VALUES (X'01FF');

But that's not a standard. Any general solutions? Note, I'm interested in a general approach. I know that this can turn out to be terribly inefficient.

Solution

There probably isn't a JDBC escape syntax, so I searched around a bit and found and successfully tested the following:

SQL Server, Sybase ASE, Sybase SQL Anywhere
```
INSERT INTO lob_table VALUES (0x01FF);
```

DB2

-- Use a blob constructor. This is not needed for VARCHAR FOR BIT DATA types
INSERT INTO lob_table VALUES (blob(X'01FF'));

Derby, H2, HSQLDB, Ingres, MySQL, SQLite

INSERT INTO lob_table VALUES (X'01FF');

Oracle

-- As mentioned by a_horse_with_no_name, keep in mind the relatively low
-- limitation of Oracle's VARCHAR types to hold only 4000 bytes!
INSERT INTO lob_table VALUES (hextoraw('01FF'));

Postgres

-- There is also hex encoding as of Postgres 9.0
-- The explicit cast is important, though
INSERT INTO lob_table VALUES (E'\\001\\377'::bytea);

See A.H.'s answer for more details about Postgres' hex encoding

SQL Standard

-- SQL actually defines binary literals as such 
-- (as implemented by DB2, Derby, H2, HSQLDB, Ingres, MySQL, SQLite):
<binary string literal> ::=
  X <quote> [ <space>... ] 
  [ { <hexit> [ <space>... ] <hexit> [ <space>... ] }... ] <quote>

<hexit> ::=
  <digit> | A | B | C | D | E | F | a | b | c | d | e | f