Subject Blobs in DB or file system.
Author Martijn Tonies
> You can put pretty much anything you like in a BLOB field, but the usual
> method is to put a filename in a VARCHAR, and keep the file on your
> filesystem, rather than slow down your DB pulling data from BLOB's.

That's a very broad statement to make and I disagree :-)


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