William Kerber wrote:
>
> Is it possible to store binary content such as programs, images, soundfiles
> in a mysql database? Is anyone doing this successfully?
>
> Should I just be storing the location of the files?
This depends. Yes MySQL supports binary fields but in case of
images/audio/etc I suggest to use only names to store. I can't see any
real advantages of putting them into SQL database.
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