on 2002/9/10 2:27 PM, "Chris K Chew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> We saved images in a db with a previous application, and history is showing
> it to be a bad idea.  Problems occur when you need to move them to another
> db instance and especially another vendor's db.  It can also be very slow
> for the application to serve them out to browsers all the time.  I highly
> recommend storing them in the filesystem instead of the db.
> 
> Chris

+1

What you can do is store the relative PATH to the image in the db. Then use
that to generate the <img> tag to serve the file from the filesystem...

Relational databases are a terrible place to store things like images.

-jon


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