My apologies for rushing in with a question that gave little in the way of details. I've straightend out the mess ;) Just in case it's of any relevance, I've opted to store the gifs in a file directory and use a varchar field to make a link to the file / directory. All is good. Sorry again! Stuart --- Paul DuBois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 9:56 -0700 9/4/04, Stuart Felenstein wrote: > >This maybe OT but perhaps somone has a clue here. > >I am storing gifs in a Blob, well tinyblob field. > > > >I was under the assumption they could just be > >pulled out and shown on a web page similar to > running > >any other query. > > > >Apparently not, someone have a hint ? > > You're asking us to guess what it was that you tried > and also > what particular symptoms of failure you were seeing. > > My guess: Your blob values are longer than 255 > bytes, the > maximum size of a TINYBLOB column. > > -- > Paul DuBois, MySQL Documentation Team > Madison, Wisconsin, USA > MySQL AB, www.mysql.com > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: > http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
