Alastair, Is there a benefit in having the images stored in the database as opposed to referring to their file name and leaving them naked on the harddrive?
Ben Petersen On 14 Feb 2003, at 11:16, Alastair Burr wrote: > I have been doing some work over the last week or so learning how to > use images in forms and trying to find the best way to display them - > as you may have realised from other questions that I've recently > posted to this list. > > Having got, more or less, what I wanted to do to work I decided to > reload the database just to remove the small amount of wasted space I > knew that I had created. > > I was surprised to see that the RB4 file was over 61mb before I ran > the reload and it shrunk to just less than 1.75mb afterwards - which > is what I would have expected it to be. > > So where did another almost 60mb come from? > > I've made lots of changes to 2 or 3 forms but they are all very simple > forms with less than a dozen variables altogether. I've also > repeatedly created a temporary table that held a few images for me to > experiment on. I could easily imagine this reaching 60mb over time. I > can also imagine that I may have created the table as a permanent one > by mistake once but I don't remember trace warning that the temp table > was a duplicate at any time and it didn't exist when I did the reload. > > This leads me to ask whether R:Base has to store images in a temporary > table in the RB4 file? > > > Regards, > Alastair. > > ---------------------------------- > A D B Burr, > St. Albans, UK. > ---------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---------------------------------- >
