Zip using Oracle Stored Procedure

Question

Right now I am using Oracle utility procedure, UTL_COMPRESS.LZ_COMPRESS(), to compress some data. But the problem is it compresses the thing using GZIP compatib

Answer 1

as_zip (blog post) is a native PL/SQL package to manipulate ZIP archives.
It handles files of up to 4 gigabytes (looks like limitation of the original ZIP format).
The package is written by Anton Scheffer and is MIT-licensed.