Re: Uploading large files with mySQL

2009-07-13 Thread Barry Leslie
Hi Dan, The problem with BLOB is that traditionally MySQL, along with a lot of other databases, is not designed to handle them very well. The BLOB data is passed between the client and server as if it where the same as any other data. This results in large memory use by both the client and server

Re: Uploading large files with mySQL

2009-07-13 Thread mos
At 07:08 AM 7/13/2009, you wrote: Hello, I'm developing a web application that requires to store large files in a MySQL database. The files can range up to 2Gb. In my understanding the upper limit for the SQL queries (thus insert queries) is 1GB. I'm trying, for the time being, to upload files o

Re: Uploading large files with mySQL

2009-07-13 Thread Johan De Meersman
Redesign. Do NOT store files in a database. The kind of database that's good a storing files, is more commonly known as "filesystem". On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Daniele Development-ML < daniele@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hello, > I'm developing a web application that requires to store la

Uploading large files with mySQL

2009-07-13 Thread Daniele Development-ML
Hello, I'm developing a web application that requires to store large files in a MySQL database. The files can range up to 2Gb. In my understanding the upper limit for the SQL queries (thus insert queries) is 1GB. I'm trying, for the time being, to upload files of sizes around 65MB, but I still get