it makes me give up the idea of using a sqlite database for my embed file
system...

2011/9/6 Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com>

> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Pero Mirko <peromi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > - BLOB data should be avoided along with the rest of smaller row data as
> it
> > seems to slow things down considerably, the smaller the row and the
> simpler
> > data structure - the better.
> >
>
> To elaborate on this a tiny bit: if you have, e.g., a table called
> "downloads" and it contains the fields (name, downloadCount, theBlob), and
> you update the download count each time it is downloaded, someone on this
> list once recommended to me that the blob be stored in a separate table
> because updating the field requires copying the whole row (and thus the
> overhead of the blob is disproportionately high, since we are copying it
> but
> not modifying it).
>
> --
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