Chris Nolan wrote: > 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). > > On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 08:13, Neil Watson wrote: >> >> 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.
I'd agree with Neil. I've never believed in that, surely it's just causing overhead for MySQL. Surely far better to have the files managed by the file system? That's what it's there for. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
