Re: Images

[DreamWerx]

It's an argument that can go on forever...  We have 10's of thousands
of images in mysql databases..   very fast/reliable.. easy to
replicate, stream, etc..


On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:42:13 +0200, Jigal van Hemert <jigal@stripped> wrote:
> From: "GH" <GaryHotko@stripped>
> 
> > I was wondering how to get images into and out of a Mysql database
> >  was told it was possible.
> >
> > I have  mysql 4.0.18
> 
> The general opinion is that files should be stored in a file system and not
> a database. There are circumstances that you might want to store binary data
> in a database.
> Take a look at the BLOB column types
> (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/BLOB.html).
> 
> Regards, Jigal.
> 
> 
> 
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