Date |Mon, 27 Aug 2001 15:31:26 -0700
>From |John Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello!
JM> At 09:15 AM 8/28/01 +1200, you wrote:
>>Hi there,
>>
>>I treat image data type as text, does anyone know how to insert an image
>>into the table?
>>
JM> the image data type is actually a BLOB, not text. Usually, it's more
JM> efficent to have the field be text, and just store the path to the image
JM> (C:\my\path\to\image.gif (Win32) or /home/user/path/to/image.gif (Unix)).
It's right. I can add also what may be you want to use
MEDIMUBLOB or LARGEBLOB types. Read more about it here:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/B/L/BLOB.html
and here:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/n/o/node_361.html
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