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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.misc -> Re: real-world experience with Oracle doc storage, intermedia etc.
On 07 Feb 2004 17:07:27 +0000, Ed Avis <ed_at_membled.com> wrote:
>Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> writes:
>
>>>I pointed out Oracle's capability of storing blobs and clobs
>>>etc. and to my surprise, the People in Power were enthusiastic about
>>>it.
>
>>But if you really want to convince them ... all of the high volume
>>internet porn sites use Oracle.
>
>How do you know?
>
>Do you mean that the sites store images as BLOBs and serve them via
>http straight from Oracle? This could certainly work, and could
>perform acceptably, but I don't see it outperforming a plain old web
>server and file system. I'd assume that transactional updates to BLOB
>data are not particularly required.
I was going to ask about career opportunities but your question is probably more relevant.
fdp
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