Re: images question

Check out BLOBs. They're stored externally. Can be tough to work with but also can be very worthwhile.

Regards,

David A. Barbour
Oracle DBA,OCP

"Casas, Claudia" wrote:
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> Do you recommend storing images in an oracle database or just storing the
> directory path to them instead. Somebody told me it would cause database
> fragmentation if I store images or binary data in databases??
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