On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 13:01:21 -0800 (PST), you wrote:
>--- Kim Steinhaug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Well as far as I can see you have 2 options.
>>
>> a) Store them directly on disc
>> b) Store them in a database (eg. mySQL)
>>
>> I would think that a) is the best way without doubt
>
>I usuall
--- Kim Steinhaug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well as far as I can see you have 2 options.
>
> a) Store them directly on disc
> b) Store them in a database (eg. mySQL)
>
> I would think that a) is the best way without doubt
I usually take this option myself, but when you are creating an
applica
Well as far as I can see you have 2 options.
a) Store them directly on disc
b) Store them in a database (eg. mySQL)
I would think that a) is the best way without doubt, since it doest
use any extra processing power to serve the images to your visitors
as its only the webserver doing the usuall st
Rene:
I think a good deal depends on the size of the image files themselves. There
are a number of apps that store small files (i.e.: icons, small gif's,
etc.), which seems to make sense.
Larger files may be problematic. There was quite a discussion on this issue
here just last week ... do a sea
if the images are not to big I would recommend saving them to blobs. It
saves you a lot of work, since you have to think about lots of stuff. Even a
garbage collector should be programmed since there is not a transaction
possibility between FS and DB.
Andy
"René fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mike Fifield wrote:
> After posting my question about performance earlier this morning it was
> suggested that I also store the jpg's in the database, (thanks Maxim). I did
> a little research and got a lot of conflicting information on weather this
> is a good idea or not. For example the followi
I personally think, storing images in DB (any kind of RDBMS that
supports it only because other DBs do) is:
*Good* because makes it portable and easily administered,
*Bad* because obviously, more flexible things get - less performance you
achieve.
In my opinion, unless you have no *real* need
From the mysql manual (http://www.mysql.com/doc/T/i/Tips.html):
"When using a normal Web server setup, images should be stored as files.
That is, store only a file reference in the database. The main reason for
this is that a normal Web server is much better at caching files than
database conte
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