Path: news.netfront.net!news.unit0.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Natural Philosopher Newsgroups: comp.databases.mysql Subject: Re: images in database? Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 13:51:59 +0100 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <8b261422-8c95-4201-9272-1c72d4fc9824@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net Vd+8iirmoxvq14OWd1XUsNzwBWmmR1wCE0W8zEP+kAwFA3VIMRZYMbCt94jjSmzgG/d9yJx5RWD+EoM8uloJdw== NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 12:51:58 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="m2oCVJ7QKL/kDf7i9xfHYoZehPEhQl0bJD2FjP5QfbJPkmbyEJHrJm96Si5W8tFuYs3KsCIkyBstDK6Devr1/+9jFt12QC2xPrk6WrHDuq01qUGroaPmAN8wIx9Bxu54"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.8.0 In-Reply-To: <8b261422-8c95-4201-9272-1c72d4fc9824@googlegroups.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:KBcySfTX6x68fSFgWJSNBQx1200= Xref: news.netfront.net comp.databases.mysql:2680 On 06/06/16 13:43, mike7411@gmail.com wrote: > I’m working on an advertising network. > > Is it better to store the banners in the database or on the file system? > > Thank you. > Asking that question will open a shitstorm of opinion based on little more than prejudice. There are arguments either way. Personally for simple stuff like site eye candy I dont bother. But when the images are part of the data - like say product images in a stock database, in they go. That's more a question of it being tidier and easier. and having a single entity to backup. -- You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. Al Capone