Re: design issue .....

2004-01-28 Thread Graham Reeds
> We have a issue. Solved by having Oracle store all 155 million images and > serve them as required. However, we don't use Tomcat instead having a > custom app get them from the database on the clients pc. Correction: We've had that issue. Looks like I lost the power of speech momentarily:-)

Re: design issue .....

2004-01-28 Thread Graham Reeds
We have a issue. Solved by having Oracle store all 155 million images and serve them as required. However, we don't use Tomcat instead having a custom app get them from the database on the clients pc. -- Graham Reeds, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://omnieng.co.uk --

RE: design issue .....

2004-01-27 Thread Justin Ruthenbeck
At 01:11 PM 1/27/2004, you wrote: We store the images on the file system instead of in the database. We are currently doing both -- it's an application configuration issue for us (we tell our code which "Repository" object to use to load binary data). I would highly suggest doing the same -- put

RE: design issue .....

2004-01-27 Thread Goehring, Chuck Mr., RCI - San Diego
Shanta, We store the images on the file system instead of in the database. A couple things to conspired are: Images in the database will severely bloat up your database backups - exports etc. Having the images/documents in the database would be more secure because someone would have to ge