Re: PDFs (or binary objects) in the database... When?

From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 06:41:28 +0100
Message-ID: <bf46380510192241o9e12044h6c058c1e104b4d7@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/20/05, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>

> The biggest thing for me is recoverability. Storing the files on the
> filesystem doesn't give you the same recoverability (you'd have to keep the
> two different backups in sync or have a bulletproof way of resolving
> differences in a failure situation, both of these add to pressure on the dba
> sysadmin at the wrong time. )

A biggie for the users is usability.

MS has tried and failed to do usable document indexes on the filesystem.

Note that SharePoint stores *all* documents in a SQL database, which is where a large chunk of our documents are headed, and will be indexed and searchable.

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Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

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Received on Thu Oct 20 2005 - 00:43:51 CDT