RE: [PHP-WIN] IMAGES IN DB
| From: | HKG) | Date: | Sun, 08 Feb 2004 15:29:18 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-WIN] IMAGES IN DB | ||
| Groups: | php.windows | ||
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> Ahhh.... The age old question about storing
> images in the database ;)
I take no stand point for either side, but from a
puristic relational stand point, binary contents
has nothing, what so ever, to in the RDBMS.
This is, of course, only a thumb rule, then of course we
can find good execptions from this. But I think one should
not automatically put everything into the RDBMS, just because
of the sake of things.
> The obvious caveats are: a hit in performance
> and a very large database.
Unless the RDBMS has inplimented file pointers instead of
actually storing a chunk of binary lumps in your RDBMS.