Thanks to everyone who replied about this issue.

I'm glad to hear blob's aren't needed.
I honestly wasn't sure.

I know the next questions are a touch off topic, but they are
somewhat relevant to my FB database.

Because they are stored in CHAR fields (or VARCHAR) I'll obviously
need to know the size of the barcode data.
Who determines the symbologies?
Is that something I can determine, or is it up to the actual scanner
device?
Or is it the actual barcodes?

Rgds,
-Ryan