From: Warren Young
Date: August 24 2005 9:13am
Subject: Re: How to store files
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Haines, Charles A. wrote:
> I wouldn't
> recommend storing the files in the database as it causes the database to
> become huge very quick.

Worse, a SQL database has a lot more overhead (on the order of 3x in 
some tests I've seen) relative to the filesystem.