Subject Re: [Firebird-general] Working with images
Author Jaume Sabater
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On Thursday 24 April 2003 17:27, Leonardo Vianna wrote:

> Guys, I?d like to know how to store images (.gif or .jpg) in firebird. I
> know the solution is on using the blob data type, but I have 2 questions:

That's it, binary subtype.

> 1) Firebird stores these image types (gif and jpg)?

Firebird stores binary data. It doesn't know whether it's a JPEG or GIF image
(as a JPEG image doesn't know whether it's a beutiful blonde girl or your old
dog at lunch :-D)

> 2) Has anyone worked with this?

I did, years ago, with Interbase and C++ Builder. Recently, I tried it with
Php, just for testing, and it worked.

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Jaume Andreu Sabater Malondra
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