On Monday 24 March 2003 13:24, Michael Edlund wrote: > Are there any special performance considerations I should have in mind > when making the decision of whether to store a large number of browser > uploaded media files (images, audio and video) in BLOB-fields in MySQL > or whether I should choose to store them in the file directory of the > web server with only references to them in the database?
Actually, this is a very well known question and a very old flame. :) 50% are absolutely sure that storing multimedia data in SQL database is a wrong way, and other 50% insist that that's ok. The performance issue is in the additional load to a SQL server if you store images/etc in it. If you only store pathnames - no additional load, that's faster. > Michael -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Victoria Reznichenko / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ MySQL AB / Ensita.net <___/ www.mysql.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
