James Tyson wrote:
>
> I know the subject sounds wierd, but I wanted to know what would break if
> I were to try and insert some gzipped data into a table? or perhaps a GIF
> or JPEG?
>
> My thought was that I could just make sure I escape any special
> characters, and it should all work fine - however, I dont want to try it
> on our production database until I have been assured that it wont break
> anything.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> James Tyson -- System Administrator - The Internet Group.
Hi James
As long as your binary data pieces are less than 1MBytes, you will just do fine.
If it is larger, you have to increase MAX_ALLOWED_PACKET on the server for inserting and
on the client for retrieving.
Tschau
Christian
