"Keith C. Ivey" <keith@stripped> wrote:
>> I'm running a server with a Pentium 133 w/32meg ram, 512 pipeline
>> burst, with a wd 512MB HD and I want to store George Bush in our MySQL
>> database.
>>
>> As far as table definitions are concerned, should I use a BLOB or
>> should I store him on disk and make a reference to the physical
>> location in the MySQL table instead?
>
> One way would be to convert him to a text representation following
> RFC 1437 and store him in a HUMONGOUSTEXT column. There's an example
> of sending Dan Quayle by e-mail in the RFC:
>
> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1437.html
I suppose the P-133 is too slow to dereference human's DNA into a valid
pointer. You may accidentaly cause new elections in U.S. if G.Bush is
stored outside of rock-stable MySQL...
>
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