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Re: Storing images in SQL database?

From: Galen Boyer <galenboyer_at_hotpop.com>
Date: 4 Oct 2004 13:19:16 -0500
Message-ID: <ufz4ubb6t.fsf@standardandpoors.com>


On 4 Oct 2004, andrew.mccall_at_gmail.com wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I am about to start on a project where I will need to store a
> large amount of images and details about images. SQL seemed a
> natural choice for this, but I was a little unsure about how to
> store the image itself.
>
> From reading around I have found that there are two techniques
> that people normally chose for this sort of work:
>
> 1) To store everything about the image within the SQL database,
> and the image itself on a file system. A link to the image in
> the file system is also stored within the SQL database.
>
> 2) To store the everything, including the image within the
> database.
>
> I was wondering what people thought about these two techniques,
> and which they would use.

Choose #2. #1 means that you have to maintain two things seperately as well as keep those two separate things in synch as you maintain them.

-- 
Galen Boyer
Received on Mon Oct 04 2004 - 13:19:16 CDT

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