Re: Storing objects in a RDBMS?

From: damorgan <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 00:36:24 GMT
Message-ID: <3CABA008.9CCC9CBA@exesolutions.com>

Perhaps you should learn a bit more about Oracle. There is a field type in Oracle named BLOB for storing Binary Large Objects. It will store anything up to 4GB be it an executable, an image file (for example .BMP), a sound file (for example .WAV), or a movie (for example .AVI).

Daniel Morgan

Larry Coon wrote:

> Mikael Petterson wrote:
>
> > I only have the option to store objects in a relational database.
>
> Then technically speaking, there is no possible solution.
> A relational database, by definition, won't store objects.
>
> You probably want an object-relational database.
>
> Larry Coon
> University of California
> larry_at_assist.org
> and lmcoon_at_home.com
Received on Wed Apr 03 2002 - 18:36:24 CST