Re: simple sql questions

Jason Yi (jason_at_woody.uucp) wrote:

: Question 2


: 	What would be a good approach in storing large text files


: 	in the database?  Is idea of storing text files in the

: 	database all together bad?  I'm thinking of using LONG

: 	type to store my text files.


Another thought occurs to me. You would have to use RAW rather than LONG to
store the characters used/generated by compressing. (unless you uuencode it
after compressing, but prior to storing in a LONG!)

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