Eve Atley wrote:
Is there an advantage to storing the PDFs directly into the database?
I'm also curious how large this would make a database. Is there any space saved through this method, or would they still be the same size as the original PDF?
- Eve
There's a percentage of disk space lost to database overhead (headers and such). Fragmentation, internal and external, is comparable to storage at the file-system level. I don't have exact figures what this would mean to MySQL, since our app currently runs on Oracle. Easy enough to test this in lab environments, though.
Regards, Kurt
