Re: storage and retrieval of blobs

Warren, Thanks for your quick reply and help and pointers. I think that realistically it will take me a while to understand it as it is only part time (evenings after work) when I can actually do it. Initially, I will try and store BLOBs rather than use pathnames and separate binaries so my or

How to store and retrieve BLOBs?

Dear all, Please excuse a newbie question. I am interested in storing articles (up to 300k) in a database, and some may have formatting and contain graphics like a word document. Is it possible to do this in mySql and if so e.g. in a TEXT or BLOB field, how do I store an article and then retri