> Storing data in BLOB's and CLOB's is not good full stop. It leads to
says who?
> If you can give me a valid business case of storing data in this matter
> which overrides the fact its bad practice then I am all ears.
multiuser, continuous data, data integrity, transactions, business rule
implementation, centralized storage and management, not having to manage
millions of files, etc. pretty much every reason why you'd use a db in the
first place. the whole GIS industry is running its enterprise databases on
modern BLOB (spatial) technology. ibm, oracle, ms, esri, mapinfo, etc. have
all spent a bundle on this technology. even freebies like postgres (postGIS
is actually pretty slick) & mySQL are on the bandwagon.
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