Re: DB_Binary Draft
| From: | yavo | Date: | Sat, 17 Mar 2001 10:47:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: DB_Binary Draft | ||
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""Jesus M. Castagnetto"" <jcastagnetto@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:20010317015345.92812.qmail@web12102.mail.yahoo.com...
> Just out of curiosity, what would be the
> advantage/benefit of storing binary data in a
> database?
Well what's the advantage of storing sessions in a database, or cached data.
Consider the case that you have one database server but 2-3 web servers. How
would you share that data, wouldb you put it on a network share? Also some
database's like oracle can perform context searches on supported files
(pdfs, word docs) so you could search for text in them.
Finaly IMHO I also don't think that in most cases storing binary data in the
database is good idea, but people are doing it and will be doing it.