Re: Blobs - Was - Floating Point Question

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, anything can go into a BLOB field.  Any type of data whatsoever,
as what you give a BLOB is the binary data, the actually bytes that make up
the data you are wanting to store.

JPGs and other image formats are often stored there, as well as sounds,
movies, etc...

Basically anything that won't fit as TEXT.

"Al Barsa, Jr." wrote:

> At 09:32 AM 8/16/99 +0100, you wrote:
> >I have to admit to a little (or possibly a lot of) ignorance here.
> >
> >What are blobs?
> Binary Large OBjectS.  (otherwise known as support for fat people)
>
> The second release of V4R4M0 (which should have been called V4R4M1, but IBM
> cheaped out) which has database blob support.
>
> As I understand it, it will allow you to put a .JPG into a database
> record.  This would allow you to put a photo into a personnel record.  I
> suspect that it will not be well embraced, as there is no DDS support for
> this stuff.  It can only be created in SQL, which IMHO is a more widely
> used interface (on every platform in the world, but not the AS/400) and an
> inferior interface for creating databases to DDS.
>
> Databases saved with this stuff may not be able to restore to other systems
> at V4R4M0, unless these systems also have these PTFs.  This is the first
> time ever that IBM has ever been this careless.
>
> Al
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