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 -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]