Just since the subject was brought up...
Im going to relseas Lucas Web Server V2.0 in a few weeks, it stores
everything (htmlfiles,
images etc) in the DB. To add to the adv/dis list:
Advantages
---
Content management (for communites and larg corp)
Dis
--
Content magangment (for others)
/roger
> (I think) most people figure that the disadvantages of having images and
> most other binary files stored within the DBMS far outweigh any
> advantages. From the top of my head...
>
> Advantages
> --
> - tidiness
> - ease of backup - all data is in one respository.
>
> Disadvantages
> -
> - DB is bigger, therefore repairs/checks/etc take longer (?)
> - for website apps, you can have your binary files (eg
> images/wavs) stored under the web heirarchy, meaning that a mysql
> application is not required to retrieve the file from disk.
>
> I'm sure there's more...I'm a bit short of time at the moment!
>
> P
>
>
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2001,
> Filip Sergeys wrote:
>
> > Hi
> > Just a question. What about performance when storing audio files in a
blob.
> > What effect does it have on the database(load, space requirements
compared to
> > audio files,...) I will be confronted with this question in the near
future
> > where I will have to decide to store on disk or in blob. I you have some
> > statistics, can you provide them?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > FS
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