Thanks, James and Mike.  Okay, so several are for storing the docs in the db.  
What about:

1) encrypting them
2) displaying several documents at once to the user

I'm more interested in seeing if anyone has an answer to #2.

Thanks, Peter

>We use Oracle for this kind of thing and it excels at indexing binary
>docs stored in BLOBS with full-text indexing, producing search context
>highlighted html versions of stored docs etc. It also means that we
>can keep multiple versions of docs as a revision history in the DB,
>without having a really messy metadata system to keep track of these
>versions on a filesystem.
>
>On 6/2/06, Dawson, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> For what it's worth, I second the notion of storing the files in a
>> database.  In addition to the sync problems you could have, with file
>> systems, you can also easily transfer the DB to another server/platform,
>> without having to also copy the files and update any file path pointers
>> in the DB.
>
>-- 
>CFAJAX docs and other useful articles:
>http://jr-holmes.coldfusionjournal.com/

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