Re: Storing images in SQL database?

Andrew McCall 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. Ideally I would like to store everything within
> the database as this seems a tidy solution, but I have read that this
> may not be the best way to go.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew McCall

Go to http://www.psoug.org
click on Morgan's Library
click on Intermedia Video and Intermedia Audio

There is an Intermedia setup for images too for which you can find a lot of information at http://tahiti.oracle.com.

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Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
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