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We have a table in our system that stores large images in blob fields
(we do this because storing them in the filesystem has been proven to
fail if you don't have a good sysadmin...). In this case does this
limit apply?

Regards
Rodrigo

> Steve Wiser wrote:
>> What about blobs? Does the table size limit include space taken
> up by
>> blobs?
>>
>> -steve
>>
>>
>
> No !
>
> The blob use just a few bytes in the record to store the used
> blobid, the blob contents are stored on separated page.
>
> Not everyone reach this limit so frequently, don't be so desperate
> :-) anyway FB 2.0 is coming out, and this limit is gone.
>
> see you !
>
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> Ltda Santo Andre - Sao Paulo - Brazil www.thorsoftware.com.br
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Analista de Sistemas - Manager Systems

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