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  3. January 2005

RE: What about Blobs?

> On the other hand, you might also want to consider runtime efficiencies.
>  If you're planning on using blob fields for storing documents, images,
> and other binary files, which users may need to access from a browser,
> wouldn't you have to convert the Blob to a "temporary" directory, pass
> the URL to the browser, then cleanup temporary stream files later?

. . . in which case, perhaps what you really want is a "datalink" field.

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JHHL

P.S.: QuestView has supported datalink fields for a few months now. As to
LOBs, well, it manages to open files containing them without crashing,
which is better than most non-SQL programs can manage.

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