Well, this was just hashed out last week, again. Its a personal thing. I am against it, having seen the slowdown and database bloat caused when this is done. I prefer a pointer to the image to be stored in the table and use that. I have found that after about 12Gb of binary data gets into the table, it really starts to affect perfomance (in mysql). The arguments for storing the image: - automatically backed up with the db (you do back up, right?) - stored with the relevant backing data Against: - more complex to show image - db bloat (size of db balloons, may affect cost of storage) - performance slowdowns as image data grows regards, bastien> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:14:43 +0800> From: ronald@xxxxxxxxx> To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Should I put pictures into a database?> > I have an application, where I use pictures. The size of the picture is> about 90kB and to speed up the preview, I made a thumbnail of each> picture which is about 2.5 to 5kB.> I use now a directory structure of ../$a/$b/$c/<pictures>> > I wonder if it would be good to put the thumbnails into the current> table, in a different table or leave it like it is now. Same for the> pictures.> > What is your opinion and why?> > bye> > Ronald> > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php> _________________________________________________________________ Send a smile, make someone laugh, have some fun! Start now! http://www.freemessengeremoticons.ca/?icid=EMENCA122
