Personally, I would have to disagree. I have just completed a year-long uni project whereby we built some software that stored massive images in InnoDB tables. We found that the performance was (at very worst) comparable to the alternative method.
Additionally, this method is better on many levels. You can have a sealed server and you protect yourself from users who like playing with things (like filenames). Regards, Chris On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 08:13, Neil Watson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 02:54:44PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am new to mysql and I was wondering if someone could point me in the > >right direction on how to store .tar and .tar.gz (bzip2) files inside a > >mysql database. I have googled to try and find some help there but most > > I believe the data type you are looking for is blob. However, you would > be better off using your row to point to a file located on the hard > drive instead of actually in the database. I can't recall the technical > details but, your performance will be much better that way. > > -- > Neil Watson | Gentoo Linux > Network Administrator | Uptime 1 day > http://watson-wilson.ca | 2.4.23 AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2000+ x 2 -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
