From: Johan De Meersman Date: February 12 2010 6:56am Subject: Re: how things get messed up List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/220672 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016369205f66a493f047f61c3e1 --0016369205f66a493f047f61c3e1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Jerry Schwartz wrote: > [JS] Storing BLOBs in a table must slow down the inner workings of the > database engine. After all, the tables are really disk files under the > covers. > Can the database engine read only parts of a file record? > They recently invented this funky little thing called "random access". No more need to spool your tape forward for ten minutes before finding the data you want. -- Bier met grenadyn Is als mosterd by den wyn Sy die't drinkt, is eene kwezel Hy die't drinkt, is ras een ezel --0016369205f66a493f047f61c3e1--