On 9 Jul 2003 at 23:14, Andrew Braithwaite wrote:

> I'm running a server with a Pentium 133 w/32meg ram, 512 pipeline
> burst, with a wd 512MB HD and I want to store George Bush in our MySQL
> database.  
> 
> As far as table definitions are concerned, should I use a BLOB or
> should I store him on disk and make a reference to the physical
> location in the MySQL table instead?

One way would be to convert him to a text representation following 
RFC 1437 and store him in a HUMONGOUSTEXT column.  There's an example 
of sending Dan Quayle by e-mail in the RFC:

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1437.html

-- 
Keith C. Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tobacco Documents Online
http://tobaccodocuments.org


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