>>My gut reaction is that this would add overhead, a dependency on the database, network traffic, etc. What are your thoughts?
This sbject has been brought many times. You're right The purpose of a database is to store information in such a way that it can be sorted and searched more easily. An image file is just a bunch of binary data, there is nothing that can be searched or sorted in an image, except may be in the name of the file. The best tool to store such information is the file management system in the operating system. You can store anything in the database, like the file name, owner's name, image type, sizes, subject, key words, but the right place of the image itself is in some directory. Storing the image in the database will just add overhead without any of the advantages brought by a database. -- _______________________________________ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm (Please send any spam to this address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Thanks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:292827 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
