On Apr 28, 11:03 am, News Aanad <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for Reply,
>       But I want to do the same with amazon's SimpleDB which deals only with
> String.
> How can i do that?
>
I wouldn't if I were you - attribute values are capped at 1024 bytes.
If you want to store images in the amazon world, I'd use S3

Fred
> Thanks in Advance
>
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Frederick Cheung <
>
>
>
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Apr 28, 9:34 am, News Aanad <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > hi ,
> > > I want to store image data in mySQL database using rails.
> > > I have created a table called "Photo_info" which have field called
> > > "photo_data" and the data type of that field is "varchar".
> > > My code is:
>
> > >  path = "C:/test_sqs/public/images/rails.png"
> > >    File.open(path, 'rb'){ |file| @data= file.read  }
>
> > > When I am trying to store data in database, it gives error like:
>
> > > "Could not log "sql.active_record" event. ArgumentError: invalid byte
> > > sequence in UTF-8"
>
> > > what should i do?
>
> > varchar is the wrong column type. It's almost certainly too short but
> > beyond that it's expecting text data, not arbitrary binary data. If
> > you want to store stuff like that in the database you should be using
> > a blob column (storing large files in the database isn't usually that
> > great of an idea though)
>
> > Fred
>
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