[ale] OT: MySQL Blobs

[matthew.brown at cordata.com (Matthew Brown)]

ROFL

Been there.?? Done that!

I had a GREAT one like this at MCI, trying to write a KnowledgeBase app in MSSQL -- 4.2?, maybe 6.?? Anyway, it was a riot in retrospect.?? The project died from management.

> 
> 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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