Subject RE: [IBO] Blob fields and storing files w/pseudo directory structure
Author Alan McDonald
> Thanks Helen,
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> Can you suggest any other way I might accomplish the goal of storing
> multiple (but unknown numbers) of files in a firebird database with IBO?

just normalise a table with one blob field and an id wihch is a foreign key
into the table in question.
Alan

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> I would guess that this is something people might commonly want to do,
> I want to use it to attach related files to a particular client.
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> Jason Gagnon
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> > Storing multiple files per blob doesn't seem feasible to me. The
> > database would have no way to determine when one file ended and the
> > next one began.
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> > Helen
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