[ale] OT: MySQL Blobs

[kafka at antichri.st (George Carless)]

> I'm working on a media center for home and would like to store
> media files such as DivX and MP3 in MySQL as blobs.

This is generally a fairly horrific idea.  Why not just store pointers to
the files (i.e. their locations) in the database?  Storing binary files in
blobs like this is something which most of us go through because of the
'cool'(/geek) factor, before realising that it's a nasty performance hit
for (in most cases) no gain.

Cheers,
--George
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