At 10:15 AM -0400 3/11/08, Robert Cummings wrote:
On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 11:18 +0000, Richard Heyes wrote:
> Well, bearing in mind I only have experience of MySQL, the general
consensus is to save it to a file on you hard drive and store the file
name in the database. If for whatever reason you can't or don't want to
do that, then at least store it in a separate table that only gets
touched when the image is requested.
Can you point me to a link where I can read about this so-called
"general consensus"? :)
Cheers,
Rob.
There's no general consensus -- it all depends upon needs.
Some needs are better served by using the file system while others
are better served by using a database.
There's plenty of discussion on this in the archives.
Cheers,
tedd
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