This is good information. This is also why the first question a tech asks is ,"When was your last backup." It's a good idea to keep anything you care about in 2 or more places. Thanks >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/23/2001 12:34:51 PM >>> It only happened once to us, but all the images were broken and unreadable. We had to rely on a backup of the database and overwrite the database files. Once we did that, the images worked again. We never figured out what happened or why, but it made me wary enough to start using the alternative of putting the image in a separate directory and using some kind of naming link thru the database. It was with MySQL 3.22.x > On 20010223.1219, Bob Crandell said ... > > Data corruption? How bad? Do you know what is causing the > corruption? Is it MySQL or any database? Is it something that > better error checking would prevent? > > Thanks guys. I'm learning a lot here. > > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/23/2001 9:10:31 AM >>> > This might not be what your asking for, but I've done this > before so > maybe it will help. > > I've also encountered data corruption when using binary info in > a > database. I would recommend a file upload type thing in PHP > that > writes the image to a certain directory using the unique table > key, > the just calling it from the page with > <? echo "<img src=\"$uniquekey.jpg\">"; ?> > or something.
