women_lover_best wrote:

>hi,
>i would like to know what is better option,and faster..in yur
>experience..
>
>I will need to be able access about 3000 photographs..and store on
>local drive of user..these photographs will be on a server..should i
>store it in firebird,or in a folder on server(each photograph will be
>named as id.jpg eg 100.jpg...
>
>

I store the actual pictures in folders and thumbnails in the database.
This way the database size isn't growing too much and it's easy to view
the pictures with an external viewer [no need to delete the tempfiles
after viewing].

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Magnus