I hope I'm posting to the correct group.

I need to store images of cattle in a cattle management sytem.



I can store Jpeg images using Jason's IB_JpegImage, but don't think this is
the way to go.



Reason:

No control over the size of the image file that the end user will be trying
to store in the blob file.

I can resize the images, and also compress to a certain degree to limit this
factor, but still going to overload the database with large amounts of image
data.



I have read somewhere that Firebird can store to files, and not the .FDB.



How do I do this?



Do I designate an area on the disk, a subdirectory perhaps the same as the
.fdb, only /images.

Do I then save all image files there, and How do I get the images to behave
with the front end of the database when say browsing the data, using IBO.

How do I identify images for late retrieval?



Any help will be appreciated to get me going here.



I was not to sure if I should have posted on IBO, but sure Helen will help
me right.



Adrian





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