On Tuesday 31 December 2002 16:39, Paul Chvostek wrote:
> Assuming an "image" isn't necessarily graphical (i.e. it could be a
> downloadable file of any type), what are the considerations with regard
> to serving binary data out of BLOBs versus recording filenames or URLs
> in a table and serving them up by reference?
>
> I've got two slightly different projects that will need to do this. The
> first is a software download site whose users buy access that lets them
> download a single file. There will probably be only 40 or 50 files in
> the collection, updated every few weeks. Users will log in multiple
> times to get updates to the files to which they've got "subscriptions".
>
> The second project has to provide more complex fraud screening -- i.e.
> stop a file from being downloaded by the same user account from too many
> different IP addresses in a given time -- but every user has equal
> access to all the files in the collection.
>
> What should I be considering when coming up with a strategy for these
> two projects? What are the strengths and weaknesses of storing files
> in a BLOB versus storing pointers to those files?
The pros and cons have been covered many times before. Check out the archives.
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