There are times, especially in highly dynamic situations, where backing up and restoring of images and metadata from a database or for security reasons, where storing the images within a database makes real sense. Separating the physical storage areas for the two types of data (metadata & images) and keeping the image data from being buffered into the database server's memory space can make storage within the database almost as efficient as file storage.
Mark C. Mark C. -----Original Message----- From: Rick Emery [mailto:remery@;emeryloftus.com] In order to speed-up queries, it is suggested that you DO NOT store images in the database. Rather, store the images in files and store file names in the database. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 9:32 PM Subject: [PHP] MySQL and images Assuming that I have to for some unknown reason, are there any articles on storing images in the database and retrieving them? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
